Amaterasu

Amaterasu, also called Amaterasu Omikami and Light of Heaven, was the goddess of light and the sun in the Japanese pantheon  and in the Eight Million Gods of Wa and Kozakura in Kara-Tur.

Description
She appeared as a human woman.

Personality
Though considered fragile and to have had a limited upbringing, Amaterasu was curious and forever fascinated by the Prime Material Plane and by the Outer Planes as well. She worried about events on the Prime and sought to understand other deities of the sun.

Abilities
A goddess of the sun, Amaterasu was naturally immune to fire and heat, and radiated light constantly, similar to continual light.

She had the power to change anything into anything else with but a touch; only other divine beings could resist this polymorphing effect. In battle, Amaterasu liked to turn creatures or weaponry that attacked her into small birds. If not, she struck with her fists.

Divine Realm
She made her home in Mercuria, the second layer of Mount Celestia. The realm was called Radiant Light, and was a land of eternal soft sunlight with no shadows cast anywhere. It soothing, and sometimes even sleep-inducing, and all secret and illegal activities failed.

Symbols
Her holy symbol was an octagonal mirror or a depiction of a sun.

She was associated with mirrors, goldfish, and the color gold.

Activities
The twin sisters Amaterasu the sun goddess and Tsukiyomi the moon goddess sat with their backs to one another, and thus marked the difference between day and night.

Relationships
Amaterasu was the daughter of Nagikami and Namikami, the founders of the pantheon. She was the twin sister of Tsukiyomi, the moon goddess, and brother of Susanowo. Amaterasu was the mother of her pantheon, and the greatest of them alongside Susanowo and Tsukiyomi.

Some mortal emperors of the Prime Material Plane were descendants of Amaterasu and thus took the title "Son of Light".

By the mid–14 century DR, Amaterasu had established relations with fellow sun deities Ra and Apollo, while the gods of the Lords of Creation also began to take an interest in her.

Worshipers
Her clerics could be male or female, and they wore green vestments and kept their heads uncovered.

She was worshiped at her temples and propitiated with handicrafts on a semi-annual basis. Her holy days were the summer and winter solstices.

Background
Amaterasu is of course based on Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun, in Japanese Buddhism and Shinto.