One day, a young fisherman sees many beutiful Tennyo bathing in the sea, with their clothing hanging on a nearby tree. The fisherman discovers that these hagoromo (robes) belong to the Tennyo; he takes one and brings it home. Then Tennyo without her hagoromo cannot return to the heavens and thus begins to cry. When she sees the fisherman, she becomes suspicious and asks. "Did you see my hagoromo? If you took it, please return it back to me." The fisherman acted as if thought he knows nothing, and thus the Tennyo cannot return home. Broken and dishearted, she marries the fisherman. Between the two, they bore a child. From her child's song, she discovers the whereabouts of her hagoromo. Upon regaining her hagoromo, she returns to her home in the Heaven; leavning behind everything-- her husband... and her child-----

This may seem to be a beautiful story, melancholy, yet serene. But in some parts of Japan, legend has it that the man who claimed the Tennyo as his bride got wealthy and power off her celestial powers. So as the years go by, the man gains more and more power amd thus, he begins to take his wife for granted. The man starts abusing the Tennyo and took many concubines who treated the Tennyo as a slave. Together the man and his concubines killed the Tennyo. Yet her spirit remains, protecting and providing her child and thus, this family thrived. This Tennyo is Ceres.