Great Mythologies of the World
Season 1
Ep 42. Japanese Tales of Purity and Defilement
- TV-PG
- August 21, 2015
- 32 min
Prepare yourself for stories of decaying goddesses, befouled maidens from the underworld, deities emerging from a parent's dirty nostrils, and the contamination of the gods' most sacred spaces with divine excrement. The mythology of this culture, which prizes purity and has strong pollution taboos, is not for the squeamish.