Note 3 — Chapter XIX · Rival Deities of Life and Death, Sunshine and Storm
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Izanami then went back to the place she had come from. She tarried there for so long a time that Izanagi grew impatient. At length he felt he could not wait any longer, so he broke off the end tooth of his hair-comb, which is called the “male pillar”, and thus made a light, and entered.3 He found his sister. Her body was rotting, and maggots swarmed over it. The Ko-ji-ki proceeds: