It’s a little more complicated than that.

I’ve been interested in mythologies for a long time and in my experience this phrase literally always applies.

But I didn’t actually know most of that, really interesting! Thank you.

Pete Buttigege

Jesus christ. And when he bombs they’ll go, “everyone wanted a younger candidate!”

Shinto’s Izanagi wasn’t really the “head god” I thought? He was the creator deity, and fathered the rest but that’s true for Ouranos in Greek myth and I don’t think he’d be considered a primary deity at all.

From my understanding that was Amaterasu. Wikipedia agrees, for whatever that’s worth.

Often considered the chief deity (kami) of the Shinto pantheon, she is also portrayed in Japan’s earliest literary texts, the Kojiki

I don’t really know of any other solid examples of a female-led pantheon, though.