Having borne the water-goddess, the gourd, the
river-weed, and the clay-hill maiden, four sorts of things, she
taught them with words, and made them to know, saying: "If the
heart of this bad-hearted child becomes violent, let the
water-goddess take the gourd, and the clay-hill maiden take the
river-weed, and pacify him."
In consequence of this I fulfil his praises, and say that for
the things set up, so that he may deign not to be awfully quick
of heart in the great place of the Sovran GRANDCHILD'S
augustness, there are provided bright cloth, glittering cloth,
soft cloth, and coarse cloth, and the five kinds of things; as
to things which dwell in the blue-sea plain, there are things
wide of fin and narrow of fin, down to the weeds of the shore;
as to LIQUOR, raising high the beer-jars, filling and ranging in
rows the bellies of the beer-jars, piling the offerings up, even
to rice in grain and rice in ear, like a range of hills, I
fulfil his praises with the great ritual, the heavenly ritual.
Izanagi, after shedding tears over his consort, whose death was caused
by the birth of the fire-god, slays the fire-god, and follows her into
the Root-land, or Hades, whereupon begins another round of wonderful
stories of the birth of many gods.
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