I (the diviner), declare: When by the WORD of the progenitor and
progenitrix, who divinely remaining in the plain of high heaven,
deigned to make the beginning of things, they divinely deigned
to assemble the many hundred myriads of gods in the high city of
heaven, and deigned divinely to take counsel in council, saying:
"When we cause our Sovran GRANDCHILD'S augustness to leave
heaven's eternal seat, to cleave a path with might through
heaven's manifold clouds, and to descend from heaven, with
orders tranquilly to rule the country of fresh spikes, which
flourishes in the midst of the reed-moor as a peaceful country,
what god shall we send first to divinely sweep away, sweep away
and subdue the gods who are turbulent in the country of fresh
spikes;" all the gods pondered and declared: "You shall send
Amenohohi's augustness, and subdue them," declared
they. Wherefore they sent him down from heaven, but he did not
declare an answer; and having next sent Takemikuma's augustness,
he also, obeying his father's words, did not declare an
answer. Ame-no-waka-hiko also, whom they sent, did not declare
an answer, but immediately perished by the calamity of a bird on
high.
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