Japanese creation myth

This story is described at the beginning of the Kojiki, the first book written in Japan (712), and in the Nihon Shoki (720).

Both form the literary basis of Japanese mythology and Shinto; however, the story differs in some aspects between these works.

[1][2] At the beginning the universe was immersed in a beaten kind of matter (chaos) in the shape of an egg,[1] sunk in silence.

The rest of the particles that had not risen formed a huge mass, dense and dark, to be called Earth.

[5] Following the creation of Heaven and Earth and the appearance of these primordial gods, Izanagi and Izanami went on to create the Japanese archipelago (Kuniumi) by stirring the ocean with a spear, then the matter that dripped off of the spear solidified and became an island,[6] and they also gave birth to a large number of gods (Kamiumi).