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"NO GODS MATCHING YOUR QUERY WERE FOUND IN THE DATABASE."

That's the result I got when I typed Japan's No. 1 deity, Amaterasu Omikami (I left off the Omikami, figuring last names were unnecessary, given the finite database) into the search box at GODCHECKER, Your Guide to the Gods (in case you got lost), where it's "LATEST NEWS: MAYAN GODS NOW ONLINE!!" And you can check out the "Top Ten Gods," browse the "New Pantheon Section" and theocommercially order "THE OFFICIAL GODCHECKER MUG" wherewith to quaff your nectar of choice.

Despite all that cyberomniscience, though, Godchecker seems to have a bit of an occidental bias, since even with "Over 1300 Gods now online!", the primo Japanese deity is nowhere around, not to mention her major pain-in-the-mythology brother Susa-no-O-no-Mikoto, who has been known to cause BIG trouble when slighted. They've got African gods, Australian gods, even Finnish gods for godsake, but no Japanese gods.

Is nothing sacred?