The names of the deities that were born in the Plain of High Heaven when the Heaven and Earth began were the deity Master-of-the-August-Center-of-Heaven; next, the High-August-Producing-Wondrous deity; next, the Divine-Producing-Wondrous deity. Hereupon the two deities took counsel, saving: "The children to whom we have now given birth are not good. [1919] Thereupon His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness replied, saying: "Let each of us swear and produce children." by Kakuzo Okakura [1904] The names of the deities that were born next from a thing that sprouted up like unto a reed-shoot when the earth, young and like unto floating oil, drifted about medusa-like, were the Pleasant-Reed-Shoot-Prince-Elder deity, next the Heavenly-Eternally-Standing deity. swiftly flying heaven-racing messenger, the tradition of the thing, too, this!". The name of the deity that was next born from his left foot was the deity Possessor-of-the-Moorland-Mountains. So speak not too lovingly, Thine Augustness the Deity-of-Eight-Thousand-Spears! These three deities were all deities born alone, and hid their persons. The names of the deities born from her vomit were the deity Metal-Mountain-Prince and, next, the deity Metal-Mountain-Princess. not otherwise copyrighted are copyright 2023, Then His Augustness Wo-usu, respited him for a moment, holding him down as he lay prostrate. Although there is no single text that is accepted as authoritative by all schools of Shint thought, some books are considered invaluable as records of ancient beliefs and ritual; they are generally grouped together as shinten. So, when the feast was at its height, His Augustness Wo-usu, drawing the saber from his bosom, and catching Kumaso by the collar of his garment, thrust the saber through his chest, whereupon, alarmed at the sight, the younger bravo ran out. As for the seed of the three female deities born first, their birth was from a thing of thine; so doubtless they are thy children." AMATERASU, THE SUN-GODDESS, AND THE STORM-GOD, INVESTITURE OF THE THREE DEITIES, THE ILLUSTRIOUS AUGUST CHILDREN, At this time His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites greatly rejoiced, saying: "I, begetting child after child, have at my final begetting gotten three illustrious children." So His Augustuess Brave-Rustic-Illuminator, child of His Augustness Ame-no-hohi, one of the five children born afterward. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Then he deigned to ask: "Who are ye?" Sacred-texts home Confucianism Buddhism Shamanism Taoism OCRT: Shinto Buy CD-ROM Buy books about Shinto Shinto and Japanese Religions This section has scriptures of the Shinto religion , as well as other texts that relate to the spirituality of Japan, which combines Shinto, Buddhism , Confucianism , Animism and other themes. Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation Sacred Text - Shintoism Sacred Text Sacred text is the scripture, or holy book, that writes about various religion traditions considered sacred. The name of "Land-of-the-Eight-Great-Islands" therefore originated in these eight islands having been born first. Thereupon Her Augustness his august parent cried and lamented, and went up to Heaven, and entreated His Divine-Producing-Wondrous-Augustness, who at once sent Princess Cockle-Shell and Princess Clam to bring him to life. Updates? but is still practiced today by multitudes of people, especially Japanese. Izanami was badly burned during the birth of the kami of fire, and died. Although there is no single text that is accepted as authoritative by all schools of Shint thought, some books are considered invaluable as records of ancient beliefs and ritual; they are generally grouped together as shinten. Corrections? Oh! When the sun shall hide behind the green mountains, in the night black as the true jewels of the moor will I come forth. In 2000, a copy fortuitously turned up in a local used bookstore. So, on my doing as they had instructed me, my whole body was hurt." That great deity will certainly counsel thee." The august name of the deity that was born from the mist of his breath when again, having begged her to hand him the jewels that were twisted in the right august bunch of her hair, and having crunchingly crunched them, he blew them away, was His Augustness Ame-no-hohi. Corrections? Then the deities Foot-Stroking-Elder and Hand-Stroking-Elder said: "If that be so, with reverence will we offer her to thee." But the deity Great-Name-Possessor, who came last of all, saw the hare, and said: "Why liest thou weeping? " Then the Heaven-Shining-Great-August deity said: " If that be so, whereby shall I know the sincerity of thine intentions? " Thereupon the Heavenly Sovereign, alarmed at the valor and ferocity of his august child's disposition, commanded him, saying: " In the West there are two Kumaso Bravoes - unsubmissive and disrespectful men. Kami The core belief at the heart of Shinto is in kami: formless spirits that animate anything of greatness. The fashion of his weeping was such as by his weeping to wither the green mountains into withered mountains, and by his weeping to dry up all the rivers and seas. Though thou bearest the bag, Thine Augustness shall obtain her.". This is the Island of Onogoro. ), Section LXXVI.Empress Kei-ko (Part I,Genealogies). So as they waited after having thus prepared everything in accordance with his bidding the eight-forked serpent came truly as the old man had said, and immediately dipped a head into each vat, and drank the liquor. Conspiracy of King Saho-biko and the Empress Saho-bime), Section LXXI.Emperor Sui-nin (Part III.Birth of Prince Homu-chi-wake and Death of the Conspirators), Section LXXII.Emperor Sui-nin (Part IV.The Dumb Prince Homu-chi-wake), Section LXXIII. the name of the "August-Mausoleum of the White-Bird." history of Shinto in Japan. Nor has it any official scripture that can be compared to the Bible in Judaism and Christianity or to the Qurn in Islam.The Kojiki ("Records of Ancient Matters") and the Nihon shoki ("Chronicles of Japan . YAMATO-TAKE SLAYS THE DEITY OF THE ASHIGARA PASS. Hereupon he said: "As for the deity of this mountain, I will simply take him empty-handed"-- and was ascending the mountain, when there met him on the mountainside a white boar whose size was like unto that of a bull. Next, they gave birth to the deity of Wind, whose name is the deity Prince-of-Long-Wind. So the name of the deity they gave birth to was the deity Great-Male-of-the-Great-Thing; next, they gave birth to the deity Rock-Earth-Prince; next, they gave birth to the deity Rock-Nest-Princess; next, they gave birth to the deity Great-Door-Sun-Youth; next, they gave birth to the deity Heavenly-Blowing-Male; next, they gave birth to the deity Great-House-Prince; next, they gave birth to the deity Youth-of-the-Wind-Breath-the-Great-Male; next, they gave birth to the sea-deity, whose name is the deity Great-Ocean-Possessor next, they gave birth to the deity of the Water-Gates, whose name is the deity Prince-of-Swift-Autumn ; next they gave birth to his younger sister the deity Princess-of-Swift-Autumn. Granting to them a heavenly jeweled spear, they thus deigned to charge them. Sometimes they are passed down orally. I. Principal Teachings of the True Sect of Pure Land My dear young sister, Thine Augustness! We are not going through the sky, but oh! So the two deities, standing upon the Floating Bridge of Heaven pushed down the jeweled spear and stirred with it, whereupon, when they had stirred the brine till it went curdle-curdle, and drew the spear up, the brine that dripped down from the end of the spear was piled up and became an island. Read more. Again the Impetuous-Male deity shot a whizzing barb into the middle of a large moor, and sent him to fetch the arrow, and, when be bad entered the moor, at once set fire to the moor all round. Next they gave birth to the Island of Oho-shima, another name for which is Oho-Tamaru-Wake. After that, when they had returned, they gave birth to the Island of Koo-zhima in Kibi, another name for which island is Brave-Sun-Direction-Youth. Judging from this I have undoubtedly gained the victory." Izanagi was furious with sorrow and beheaded the . Hereupon, when presenting to him the great august food, Princess Miyazu lifted up a great liquor-cup and presented it to him. So they made an august mausoleum there, and laid Yamato-take to rest. folklore. KAKUZO OKAKURA Again when the bird flew and perched on the seaside, they sang, saying: "The dotterel of the beach goes not on the beach, but follows the seaside.". So the hare followed the instructions of the eighty deities, and lay down. So take them "-and with this command he sent him off. The Ideals of the East This short and very readable book describes the code of honor of the By Kyuso (Muro Naokiyo), Again the Heavenly Sovereign said: "How didst thou take the trouble?" So, mounting to the top of the pass, he sighed three times and spoke, saying: " Adzuma ha ya!" So then, when he reached the land of Sagamu, the ruler of the land lied, saying: "In the middle of this moor is a great lagoon, and the deity that dwells in the middle of the lagoon is a very violent deity." So then, pursuing after him to the Even-Pass-of-Hades, and gazing on him from afar, be called out to the deity Great-Name-Possessor, saying: "With the great life-sword and the life-bow-and-arrows which thou carriest, pursue thy half-brethren till they crouch on the august slopes of the passes, and pursue them till they are swept into the reaches of the rivers, and do thou, wretch! Shintoism's Sacred Texts Image: Repetition by Stefan Lins is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Beneath the fluttering of the ornamented fence, beneath the softness of the warm coverlet, beneath the rustling of the cloth coverlet, thine arms white as rope of paper-mulberry bark softly patting my breast soft as the melting snow, and patting each other interlaced, stretching out and pillowing ourselves on each otber's arms-true jewel-arms, and with outstretched legs, will we sleep. An account of Japanese Neo-Confucian thought. Then His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites replied: "My lovely younger sister, Thine Augastness! Animism and other themes. Shinto shrines. Then when the day of the rejoicing came, having combed down after the manner of girls his august hair which was bound up, and having put on his aunt's august upper garment and august skirt, he looked quite like a young girl, and, standing amidst the women, went inside the cave. Would that I could beat them till they were sick! what a fair and lovely youth! " Hereupon His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites, overawed at the sight, fled back, whereupon his younger sister, "Her Augustness the Female-Who-Invites, said: "Thou hast put me to shame," and at once sent the Ugly-Female-of-Hades to pursue him. Then I will tread on them, and count them as I run across. that sword!". Oh! COURTSHIP OF THE DEITIES THE MALE-WHO-INVITES AND THE FEMALE-WHO-INVITES. As soon as he had finished saying this, the Prince ripped him up like a ripe melon, and slew him. While she pulled them up and ate them, he fled on. from the direction of home clouds are rising and coming!". When he departed thence and reached the moor of Nobe, he regretting his native land, sang, saying: "As for Yamato, the most secluded of land - Yamato, retired behind Mount Awogaki encompassing it with its folds, is delightful. The names of the deities that were next born from the blood that collected on the hilt of the august sword and leaked out between his fingers were: the deity Kura-okami and, next, the deity Kura-mitsuba. John Bruno Hare, All Rights Reserved. The feathers of the arrow were brought in their months by all the mouse's children. So His Augustness the Deity-Producing-Wondrous-Ancestor caused them to be taken and used as seeds. When I take and attire myself so carefully in my august garments green as the kingfisher, and, like the birds of the offing, look at my breast -though I raise my fins, I say that these, too, are not good, and cast them off on the waves on the beach. But notwithstanding these apologetic words, he still continued his evil acts, and was more and more violent. Oh! Omissions? Hindus believe in reincarnation and karma. A Hundred Verses from Old Japan I have no strange intentions." It's a very locally. SHINTO SACRED TEXTS WORLD RELIGIONS, SET 8 Photo by Wonderlane 2. So when he had received the imperial command and started off, he went into the temple of the Great August Deity of Ise, and worshiped the deity's court, forthwith speaking to his aunt, Her Augustness Yamato-hine, saving: " It must surely be that the Heavenly Sovereign thinks I may die quickly - for after sending me to smite the wicked people of the West, I am no sooner come up again to the capital than, without bestowing on me an army, he now sends me off afresh to pacify the wicked people of the twelve circuits of the East. For this reason the sound of bad deities was like unto the flies in the fifth moon as they all swarmed, and in all things every portent of woe arose. So the great deity the Male-Who-Invites dwells at Taga in Afumi. THE KOJIKI [B.H. Then Princess Cockle-Shell triturated and scorched her shell, and Princess Clam carried water and smeared him as with mother's milk, whereupon he became a beautiful young man, and wandered off. The name of the deity that was next born as he washed his august nose was His Brave-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness. ), Section LXXXVII.Emperor Kei-k (Part XII.Yamato-take Wooes Princess Miyazu), Section LXXXVIII.Emperor Kei-k (Part XIII.Yamato-take Meets the Deity of Mount Ibuki). Kojiki, (Japanese: Records of Ancient Matters), together with the Nihon shoki (q.v. Sacred Writings - Shintoism Two central texts are revered by every Shinto religious group: 1. So that place is called by the name of the Tsuwetsuki pass. ), Section LXXV.Emperor Sui-nin (Part VII.His Death and that of the Empress Hibasu. by Lafcadio Hearn [1904]. Then when the eighty deities searched and pursued till they came up to him, and fixed their arrows in their bows, he escaped by dipping under the fork of a tree, and disappeared. Kogoshui: Gleanings from Ancient Stories On arriving at the single pine-tree on Cape Wotsu, an august sword, which he had forgotten at that place before when augustly eating, was still there, not lost. And she forthwith, unbinding her august hair, twisted it into august bunches; and both into the left and into the right august bunch, as likewise into her august head-dress and likewise on to her left and her right august arm, she twisted an augustly complete string of curved jewels eight feet long, of five hundred jewels, and, slinging on her back a quiver holding a thousand arrows, and adding thereto a quiver holding five hundred arrows, she likewise took and slung at her side a mighty and high sounding elbow-pad, and brandished and stuck her bow upright so that the top shook, and she stamped her feet into the hard ground up to her opposing thighs, kicking away the earth like rotten snow, and stood valiantly like unto a mighty man, and, waiting, asked: "Wherefore ascendest thou hither?" The Text and its Authenticity, Together with Bibliographical Notes, IV. have deep connections with Japanese Buddhism, Shinto, and Japanese So thenceforward he was praised by being called by the august name of his Augustness Yamato-take. The name of the deity that was born from the august hat which he next threw down was the deity Master-of-the-Open-Mouth. Much of Shint thought is based on interpretations of the mythology contained in the Kojiki. So the Great August deity the Male-Who-Invites said to His Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness: "How is it that, instead of ruling the land with which I charged thee, thou dost wail and weep?" This answer has been confirmed as correct and helpful. The name of the deity that was next born from his left hand was the deity Possessor-of-the-Densely-Wooded-Mountains. A Christian scholar explores Shinshu Buddhism. that eightfold fence.". So the bird flew off from that country, and stopped at Shiki in the land of Kafuchi. Then His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness said to the Heaven-Shining-Great-August deity: "Owing to the sincerity of my intentions I have, in begetting children, gotten delicate females. So Prince Wo-usu sauntered about the neighborhood, waiting for the day of the rejoicing. Then His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augstness said to the old man: "If this be tby daughter, wilt thou offer her to me?" shinto origins shinto history shinto beliefs. These two deities were likewise born alone, and hid their persons. So the deity her husband, being distressed, was about to go up from Idzumo to the Land of Yamato; and as he stood attired, with one august hand on the saddle of his august horse and one august foot in the august stirrup, he sang, saying: When I take and attire myself so carefully in my august garments black as the true jewels of the moor, and, like the birds of the offing, look at my breast -though I raise my fins, I say that these are not good, and cast them off on the waves on the beach. Non-public domain contents of this site Chamberlain translation, which, despite being published in the 1970s is out of print and hard to obtain. Then Her Augustness the Female-Who-Invites answered, saying: " Lamentable indeed that thou camest not sooner! ), the first written record in Japan, part of which is considered a sacred text of the Shint religion. Again when they entered the salt sea, and suffered as they went, they sang, saying: "As we go through the sea, our loins are impeded -tottering in the sea like herbs growing in a great river-bed.". Oh! ), Section LXXXIV.Emperor Kei-k (Part IX.Yamato-take's Empress Stills the Waves, Section LXXXV.Emperor Kei-k (Part X.Yamato-Take Slays the Deity of the Ashigara Pass. Next they gave birth to the Island of Futa-na in Iyo. A wonderful thousand-year-old collection of Tanka poetry. Since Shinto has no founder or central creationist figure, but rather is an ancient set of beliefs that was formally incorporated into Japanese society with the influx of Confucianism and Buddhism, understanding the complex web of tradition, ritual, prayer, kami, and jinja can be daunting. text is buried in apparatus. Hearing that you two fellows, the Kumaso bravoes, were unsubmissive and disrespectful, the Heavenly Sovereign sent me with the command to take and slay you." Japan and its people are chosen and special to the gods (kami), the kami have many qualities in common with human beings, the kami are very different from God in the Western sense, the kami have a duty to look after humanity, purity and purification are important if humanity is to thrive, purification is a creative as well as a cleansing act. Section XLV.Emperor Jim-mu (Part II.The Cross-Sword Sent Down From Heaven). While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. So the Chiefs of Adzumi are the descendants of His Augustness Utsushi-hi-gana-saku, a child of these Ocean-possessing deities. Thereupon his Empresses and likewise his august children, who dwelt in Yamato, all went down and built an august mausoleum, and, forthwith crawling hither and thither in the rice fields encompassing the mausoleum, sobbed out a song, saying: The Dioscorea quinqueloba crawling hither and thither among the among the rice-stubble in the rice-fields encompassing the Mausoleum..". Thereupon the deity caused heavy ice-rain to fall, striking and perplexing His Augustness Yamato-take. As the Heaven-Shining-Great-August deity sat in her awful weaving-hall seeing to the weaving of the august garments of the deities, he broke a hole in the top of the weaving-hall, and through it let fall a heavenly piebald horse which he had flayed with a backward flaying, at whose sight the women weaving the heaveijy garments were so much alarmed they died of fear. Then the eighty deities spoke to the hare, saying: "What thou shouldest do is to bathe in the sea-water here, and lie on the slope of a high mountain exposed to the blowing of the wind." Her father the great deity, thinking that the deity Great-Name-Possessor was already dead and done for, went out and stood on the moor, whereupon the deity Great-Name-Possessor brought the arrow and presented it to him, upon which the great deity, taking him into the house and calling him into an eight-foot spaced large room, made him take the lice off his head. If thou, single pine-tree! These four songs were all sung at Yamato-take's august interment. Though thou say that thou wilt not weep - if like the Rocking birds, I flock and depart, if, like the led birds, I am led away and depart, thou wilt hang down thy head like a single eulalia upon the mountain and thy weeping shall indeed rise an the mist of the morning shower. There is also a collection of Ainu Texts. A number of esoteric texts detailing ritual and religious matters of the shrines, and discussing the relationship between Shinto and Buddhism, are also among the sacred texts of Shinto. THE AUGUST RAVAGES OF HIS-IMPETUOUS-MALE-AUGUSTNESS. Next, they gave birth to the Fire-Burning-Swift-Male deity, another name for whom is the deity Fire-Shining-Prince, and another name is the deity Fire-Shining-Elder. Thereupon the dead prince, turning into a white dotterel eight fathoms long, and soaring up to Heaven, flew off toward the shore. (1) Shinto texts are rich with imagery and symbolism. Again on the night of the next day the Impetuous--Male deity put him into the centipede and wasp-house; but as she again gave him a centipede and wasp-scarf, and instructed him as before, he came forth calmly. So when the Heaven-Shining-Great-August deity had come forth, both the Plain of High Heaven and the Central-Land-of-Reed-Plains of course again became light. Then His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness drew the ten-grasp saber, that was augustly girded on him, and cut the serpent in pieces, so that the River Hi flowed on changed into a river of blood. The names of the deities that were next born from the blood that stuck to the upper part of the august sword and again bespattered the multitudinous rock-masses were: the Awfully-Swift deity; next, the Fire-Swift deity; next, the Brave-Awful-Possessing-Male deity, another name for whom is the Brave-Snapping deity, and another name is the Luxuriant-Snapping deity. Descend back again and amend your words." The names of the deities that were next born from her urine were the deity Mitsubanome and, next, the Young-Wondrous-Producing deity. They ascended forthwith to Heaven and inquired of Their Augustnesses the Heavenly deities. Shinto, an ancient Japanese religion, is still practiced today and has been considered the formal state religion of Japan. I hope it will help to break down the barriers of suspicion and ignorance and encourage understanding and tolerance in this age of tension and conflict. Manners and Customs of the Early Japanese, V. Religious And Political Ideas of the Early Japanese, Beginnings of the Japanese Nation, and Credibility of the National Records, Section I.The Beginning of Heaven and Earth, Section IV.Courtship of the Deities The Male-Who-Invites and the Female Who-Invites, Section VII.Retirement of Her Augustness The Princess-Who-Invites, Section VIII.The Slaying of the Fire-Deity, Section X.The Purification of the August Person, Section XI.Investiture of the Three Deities; The Illustrious August Children, Section XII.The Crying and Weeping of His Impetuous-Male-Augustness, Section XIV.The August Declaration of the Division of the August Male Children and the August Female Children, Section XV.The August Ravages of His Impetuous-Male-Augustness, Section XVI.The Door of the Heavenly Rock-Dwelling, Section XVII.The August Expulsion of His-Impetuous-Male-Augustness, Section XX.The August Ancestors of the Deity-Master-Of-The-Great Land, Section XXIV.The Wooing of the Deity-of-Eight-Thousand-Spears, Section XXVI.The Deities the August Descendants of the Deity Master-of-the-Great-Land, Section XXVII.The Little-Prince-the-Renowned-Deity, Section XXVIII.The August-Luck-Spirit-the-August-Wondrous-Spirit, Section XXIX.The August Children of the Great-Harvest-Deity And of the Swift-Mountain-Deity, Section XXX.The August Deliberation for Pacifying the Land, Section XXXII.Abdication of the Deity Master-of-the-Great-Land, Section XXXIII.The August Descent from Heaven of His Augustness the August Grandchild, Section XXXIV.The August Reign in Himuka of His Augustness Prince Rice-Ear-Ruddy-Plenty, Section XXXVI.The Deity Prince of Saruta at Azaka, Section XXXVII.The Curse of the Deity Great-Mountain-Possessor, Section XXXVIII.The August Child-Bearing of Princess-Blossoming Brilliantly-Like-the-Flowers-of-the-Trees, Section XXXIX.The August Exchange of Luck, Section XL.The Palace of the Ocean-Possessor, Section XLI.Submission of His Augustness Fire-Shine, Section XLII.The Parturition-House of Cormorants' Feathers, Section XLIII.The August Children of His Augustness Cormorant-Thatch-Meeting-Incompletely, Section XLIV.Reign of the Emperor Jim-mu (Part I.His Progress Eastward, and Death of His Elder Brother). The history and practice of Pure Land Buddhism in Japan. the lands that I and thou made are not yet finished making; so come back! " Answer (1 of 2): "Shinto" is a term which coalesced relatively recently (within the last 100-200 years) to collect or contain what had previously been (and remains, to a certain extent) separate sites, beliefs, and practices connected to sites and communities all across Japan. In some cases, a mountain, waterfall or rock behind the shrine building can be . The Kojiki was first translated into English in 1882. Then be replied, saving: I am elder brother to the Heaven-Shining-Great-August deity. Includes two translated texts from the Nichiren school. Though I slay it not now, I will slay it when I return"-- and so saying, ascended. So that place is now called Suga. These two deities are the deities that were born from the filth he contracted when he went to that polluted, hideous land. Afterward it will be a gentle bird; so as for thy life, do not deign to die. ), THE AUGUST DECLARATION OF THE DIVISION OF THE AUGUST MALE CHILDREN A.ND THE AUGUST FEMALE CHILDREN. Thereupon it was intoxicated with drinking, and all the heads lay down and slept. Section XLVI.Emperor Jim-mu (Part III.The Gigantic Crow and Gods With Tails), Section XLVII.Emperor Jim-mu (Part IV.The Ukashi Brethren), Section XLVIII.Emperor Jim-mu (Part V.The Earth-Spider of the Cave of Osaka), Section XLIX.Emperor Jim-mu (Part. These texts are holy writing that contains Hindu teachings, laws, and philosophies. The august name of the deity that was born from the mist of his breath when again, having begged her to hand him the jewels that were twisted in her august head-dress, and having crunchingly crunched them, he blew them away, was His Augustness Prince-Lord-of-Heaven. Next they gave birth to the islands of Futa-go, another name for which is Heaven's Two-Houses. Production notes: I worked on this for four years, on and off. having put the days in a row, there are of nights nine nights, and of days ten days!". [This difficult song has been rather differently rendered by Mr. Aston in the Second Appendix to his " Grammar of the Japanese Written Language." So while the other two deities each assumed his and her rule according to the command with which her father had deigned to charge them, the Storm-God, His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness, did not assume the rule of the dominion with which he had been charged, but cried and wept till his eight-grasp beard reached to the pit of his stomach. In 2005, I rescanned the book using more recent OCR software with Then His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites announced to the peaches: "Like as ye have helped me, so must ve help all living people in the Central Land of Reed-Plains when they shall fall into troublous circumstances and be harassed! 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