Uzume's dance is the pivot of the cave story and its logic is worth noticing: the assembled gods have already tried reasoning and force, and what works is a comic striptease that makes eight hundred myriads of kami laugh so loudly that the sun becomes curious. She is credited as the origin of kagura, and by extension of the whole line of Japanese performing arts that runs through Noh and Kabuki. She appears again as the only kami willing to confront the enormous glowering Sarutahiko at the crossroads during Ninigi's descent, and she does it by baring her chest and laughing at him; they subsequently marry, and the two are frequently paired as roadside stones. Her name is attached to the Sarume, a hereditary guild of court dancers. The tradition's founding recovery of light is achieved by a woman being funny and rude, which is not the shape of most cosmogonic crises.