Let the Sovran gods tranquilly
take with clear HEARTS, as peaceful OFFERINGS and sufficient
OFFERINGS the great OFFERINGS which I set up, piling them upon
the tables like a range of hills, providing bright cloth,
glittering cloth, soft cloth, and coarse cloth; as a thing to
see plain in--a mirror: as things to play with--beads: as things
to shoot off with--a bow and arrows: as a thing to strike and
cut with--a sword: as a thing which gallops out--a horse; as to
LIQUOR--raising high the beer-jars, filling and ranging in rows
the bellies of the beer-jars, with grains of rice and ears; as
to the things which dwell in the hills--things soft of hair, and
things rough of hair; as to the things which grow in the great
field plain--sweet herbs and bitter herbs; as to the things
which dwell in the blue sea plain--things broad of fin and
things narrow of fin, down to weeds of the offing and weeds of
the shore, and without deigning to be turbulent, deigning to be
fierce, and deigning to hurt, remove out to the wide and clean
places of the mountain-streams, and by virtue of their divinity
be tranquil.
In this ritual we find the origin of evil attributed to wicked kami, or
gods.
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