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    The Kojiki, or Records of Ancient Matters
    The Kojiki, or Records of Ancient Matters
    The Kojiki, or Records of Ancient Matters
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    The Kojiki, or Records of Ancient Matters

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    The Kojiki (古事記, "Records of Ancient Matters" or "An Account of Ancient Matters"), also sometimes read as Furukotofumi or Furukotobumi, is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts. Records of Ancient Matters is a historical text concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the kami (神), and the Japanese imperial line.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 10, 2021
    ISBN4064066465711
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      The Kojiki, or Records of Ancient Matters

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      Table of Contents

      PART I.- THE BIRTH OF THE DEITIES

      THE BEGINNING OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

      THE SEVEN DIVINE GENERATIONS

      THE ISLAND OF ONOGORO

      COURTSHIP OF THE DEITIES THE MALE-WHO-INVITES AND THE FEMALE-WHO-INVITES

      BIRTH OF THE VARIOUS DEITIES

      RETIREMENT OF HER AUGUSTNESS THE PRINCESS-WHO-INVITES

      THE SLAYING OF THE FIRE-DEITY

      PART II. - THE QUARREL OF IZANAGI AND IZANAMI

      THE LAND OF HADES

      THE PURIFICATION OF THE AUGUST PERSON

      PART III. AMATERASU, THE SUN-GODDESS, AND THE STORM-GOD

      INVESTITURE OF THE THREE DEITIES, THE ILLUSTRIOUS AUGUST CHILDREN

      THE CRYING AND WEEPING OF HIS IMPETUOUS-MALE-AUGUSTNESS

      THE AUGUST OATH

      THE AUGUST DECLARATION OF THE DIVISION OF THE AUGUST MALE CHILDREN A.ND THE AUGUST FEMALE CHILDREN

      THE AUGUST RAVAGES OF HIS-IMPETUOUS-MALE-AUGUSTNESS

      THE DOOR OF THE HEAVENLY ROCK-DWELLING

      THE AUGUST EXPULSION OF HIS IMPETUOUS-MALE-AUGUSTNESS

      THE EIGHT-FORKED SERPENT

      THE PALACE OF SUGA

      PART IV.- THE BEAST-LEGENDS

      THE WHITE HARE OF INABA

      MOUNT TEMA

      THE NETHER-DISTANT-LAND

      THE WOOING OF THE DEITY-OF-EIGHT-THOUSAND-SPEARS

      THE CUP PLEDGE

      PART V.- THE CHAMPION OF JAPAN

      YAMATO-TAKE SLAYS HIS ELDER BROTHER

      YAMATO-TAKE SLAYS THE KUMASO BRAVOES

      YAMATO-TAKE SLAYS THE IDZUMO BRAVO

      YAMATO-TAKE IS SENT TO SUBDUE THE EAST AND VISITS HIS AUNT AT ISE

      YAMATO-TAKE SLAYS THE RULERS OF SAGAMU

      YAMATO-TAKE'S EMPRESS STILLS THE WAVES

      YAMATO-TAKE SLAYS THE DEITY OF THE ASHIGARA PASS

      YAMATO-TAKE WOOS PRINCESS MIYAZU

      YAMATO-TAKE MEETS THE DEITY OF MOUNT IBUKI

      YAMATO TAKE SICKENS AND DIES

      YAMATO-TAKE TURNS INTO A WHITE BIRD

      PART I.- THE BIRTH OF THE DEITIES

      Table of Contents

      THE BEGINNING OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

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      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. These three deities were all deities born alone, and hid their persons. 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. These two deities were likewise born alone, and hid their persons.

      The five deities in the above list are separate Heavenly deities.

      THE SEVEN DIVINE GENERATIONS

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      The names of the deities that were born next were the Earthly-Eternally-Standing deity; next, the Luxuriant-Integrating-Master deity. These two deities were likewise deities born alone, and hid their persons. The names of the deities that were born next were the deity Mud-Earth-Lord; next, his Younger sister the deity -Mud-Earth-Lady; next, the Germ-Integrating deity; next, his younger sister the Life-Integrating-Deity; next, the deity of Elder-of-the-Great-Place; next, his younger sister the deity Elder-Lady-of-the-Great-Place; next, the deity Perfect-Exterior; next, his younger sister the deity Oh-Awful-Lady; next, the deity Izanagi or the Male-Who-Invites; next, his younger sister Izanami or the deity the Female-Who-Invites.

      From the Earthly-Eternally-Standing deity down to the deity the Female-Who-Invites in the previous list are what are termed the Seven Divine Generations.

      THE ISLAND OF ONOGORO

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      Hereupon all the Heavenly deities commanded the two deities His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites and Her Augustness the Female-Who-Invites, ordering them to make, consolidate and give birth to this drifting land. Granting to them a heavenly jeweled spear, they thus deigned to charge them. So the two deities, standing upon the Floating Bridge of Heaven

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