[5] In an unnamed forest, a group of women with white-painted faces and robes wander to a ritual site.

Himiko starts to convulse and moan, imitating an orgasm which symbolizes the Sun God penetrating her body.

The Mountain People are a raggedy, unsightly group, all conjoined together by a single rope, and donned with haunting makeup consisting of heavy paint, cobwebs and strings.

In a ritual, the king of the Sun-God People, Ohkimi, holds a meeting to discuss the visions of the Sun God seen by Himiko.

He confides in his brother Ikume and King Ohkimi and tells them that Himiko might be losing her ability to communicate properly with the Sun God.

Back in the Sun God Kingdom, Nashime consoles a broken Himiko, who feels betrayed and unloved.

Meanwhile, Mimaki and Ikume conspire to take power away from Himiko, who they still believe is not acting on the Sun God's behalf, but rather through her own love.

They do their best to convince Nashime, and he eventually succumbs to the belief that Himiko has lost her powers, and he keeps her stashed away in her room and Mimaki takes the throne as the leader of the Sun God People.

Nashime then tells Mimaki that the young girl Toyo will take Himiko's place as the shaman and translator of the Sun God.

Takehiko and Adahime decide to run away to be together forever, but they are ambushed in the forest by Mimaki's soldiers who pierce them with arrows.

Takehiko and Adehime's corpses are brought back to the Sun God People's Kingdom to show to Himiko.

Mimaki has a court ritual in which the new translator, Toyo, comes and declares the Sun God is still within Himiko and that the powerful country of Wei is to be given many slaves and offerings.

The film flashes forward several years, and Nashime is walking in the forest, old and fragile, still crying over Himiko.