The Curse of Izanami - Izanagi's Escape from the Japanese Underworld - Japanese Mythology

Today, we're going to learn about Izanagi, the primordial god of Shinto mythology, and how he escaped the Yomi, the Japanese underworld. Izanagi found Izanami in Yomi. She had already eaten the food of the underworld, binding her to that realm. Izanami initially agreed to return with Izanagi but asked him to wait while she asked for permission from the deities of Yomi. Unable to wait, Izanagi lit a torch to look for Izanami, breaking the taboo of seeing the dead in Yomi. He was horrified by what he saw, and it forever changed Izanagi's life.
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Greek mythology is 2700 years old, Japanese mythology is about 2400 years old, what are the chances that the Greeks and the Japanese crossed paths in those 300 years and shared creation myths with each other?