HY 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nihon Shoki, Yamato Period, Fudoki
28 Sep 2016
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Why should we not produce someone who shall be lord of the universe? they then produced together the. Sun goddess the resplendent luster of this child shone throughout all the six quarters (north, south, east, west, above, below). Therefore the two deities rejoiced saying: we have had many children, but none of them have been equal to this wonderous infant. Jing : the country formally had a man as ruler. For some seventy or eighty years following that there were disturbances and warfare. Thereupon the people agreed upon a woman for their ruler. She occupied herself with magic and sorcery, bewitching the people. 245), a great mound was raised, more than a hundred paces in diameter. Over a hundred male and female attendants followed her to the grave. Then a king was placed on the throne, but the people would not obey him. Assassination and murder followed; more than one hundred were slain.
