{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/sbe03/sbe03079.htm","path":"cfu/sbe03/sbe03079.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/sbe03079.htm","text":"H\u00e2u-k\u00ee was the same as Kh\u00ee, who appears in Part II of the Sh\u00fb as Minister of Agriculture to Y\u00e2o and Shun, and co-operating with\n[paragraph continues] Y\u00fc in his labours on the flooded land. The name H\u00e2u belongs to him as lord of Th\u00e2i; that of K\u00ee, as Minister of Agriculture. However the combination arose, H\u00e2u-k\u00ee became historically the name of Kh\u00ee of the time of Y\u00e2o and Shun, the ancestor to whom the kings of K\u00e2u traced their lineage. He was to the people the Father of Husbandry, who first taught men to plough and sow and reap. Hence, when the kings offered sacrifice and prayer to God at the commencement of spring for his blessing on the labours of the year, they associated H\u00e2u-k\u00ee with him at the service.\nO accomplished H\u00e2u-k\u00ee, Thou didst prove thyself the correlate of Heaven. Thou didst give grain-food to our multitudes:--The immense gift of thy goodness. Thou didst confer on us the wheat and the barley, Which God appointed for the nourishment of all. And without distinction of territory or boundary, The rules of social duty were diffused throughout these great regions.","title":"SBE 3: Shih King: Odes of the Temple and the Altar: II. The Sacrificial Odes of K\u00e2u: Ode 10. The Sze W\u0103n","type":"page"}