Something like Greek mythology can be found in Japan and it’s called Shinto. This aboriginal religion is still powerful and active today.  In this episode, the roots of Shinto explain how one religion can coexist with another, Buddhism, and has adapted through centuries to arrive in the 21st and still be active in our modern society, with all its traditions.  But above all, Shinto is a religion that often puts women in the spotlight. Goddesses, warriors, shamans, village chiefs, their names make the legends. They are powerful, fierce, selfish, generous, treacherous, calculating, vengeful and in love. They fascinate Japanese songs, Kabuki, Noh, pottery and ancient paintings. And they appear in the Kojiki, the oldest collection of writings in Japan.