Legend Of Hikari

    Legends holds that when the God and Goddess of heaven, Izanagi and his bride Izanami made the earth, they children outnumbered the stars in the sky. These embodiments of heavens light became kings, nobles, countesses, duchesses, women of grandeur and men of status. Yet out of all of their children, there was one whose beauty matched heaven’s splendor itself, Hikari. Hikari, who was originally intended to be the goddess of bookkeeping, was so overcome with her mother’s love for her subjects that she instead became a goddess of compassion. It was said that we would often spend her days on soil not asking for prayers or enjoying temples being erected in her honor, rather that she would go to where the sick and dying lay and whether they believed in the gods or not, she would heal them. Whether it be comforting the dying, instructing the ignorant, mending the wounded or simply visiting an unmourned grave, she could be found spreading warmth and love where ever she went. It was said that she could melt the ice during the thickest winter storm, sooth quakes in the land buy simply laying in the tall grass, make dead plants bloom and turn the driest lands into food for thousands. The people turned to her by the thousands, with the emperor, kings, lords, warriors, monks and especially the common folk abandoned their hateful ways and began to love each other. The hungry never starred , lovers never left, lies were never told, everyone and everything was beautiful. This angered Bishamonton, the war god and the once favored son of heaven. He sat upon his golden throne and spat, “the people’s hearts have been weakened by all this talk of harmony, nonsense.” “To struggle is to live, I must put an end to this nonsense before we all turn into children suckling a mother’s breast.” So he devised a plan to end Hikari once and for all. He took the form of a man, but not any man. He took the form of the ugliest man of all the ages, truly there was not a man more repulsive than this. He drank placed a poison on his lips, a mixture so brutish and cruel than it made his breath turn everything around him into blackest ash.  He sat beneath a dying tree and cried out “Oh Hikari, goddess of love, would you kiss the ugliest man in the whole of heaven and earth?” Within moments, Hikari appeared, even in all his ugliness, Bishamonton was struck by her beauty. Her hair a purest raven black, her skin kissed by the rays of heaven and lips full like roses. Without word, she gave him a kiss and then disappeared into the air, never to be seen again.” However, strangely enough, there was another god of compassion soon after. His name was bishamonton.