{"collection":"shi","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/shi/kj/kj024.htm","path":"shi/kj/kj024.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj024.htm","text":"The Kojiki, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, [1919]\nThereupon the eight hundred myriad Deities took counsel together, and imposed on High-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness a fine of a thousand tables, 1 and likewise cut his beard, and even caused the nails of his fingers and toes to be pulled out, and expelled him with a divine expulsion. Again he begged food of the Deity Princess-of-Great-Food. 2 Then the Princess-of-Great-Food took out all sorts of dainty things from her nose, her mouth, and her fundament, and made them up into all sorts [of dishes], which she offered to him. But His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness watched her proceedings, considered that she was offering up to him filth, and at once killed the Deity Princess-of-Great-Food. So the things that were born in the body of the Deity who had been killed were [60] [as follows]: in her head were born silkworms, in her two eyes were born rice-seeds, in her two ears was born millet, 3 in her nose were born small beans, 4 in her private parts was born barley, 5 in her fundament were born large beans. 6 So His Augustness the Deity-Producing-Wondrous-Ancestor 7 caused them to be taken and used as seeds.\n70:1 p. 70 I.e., \"an immense fine.\" The student should consult Motowori's elaborate note on this passage in Vol. IX, pp. 1-5 of his Commentary. Tables of gifts are mentioned in Sect. XXXVII, Note 7 and Sect. XL, Note 13.\n70:2 Oho-ge-tsu-hime-no-kami. This personage (but without the title of \"Deity\") has already appeared in Section V, (Note 8) as the alternative personal name of the Island of Aha.\n70:3 Panicum Italicum.\n70:4 p. 71 Phaseolus Radiatus.\n70:5 Or less probably \"wheat.\"\n70:6 Soja Glycine.\n70:7 Kami-musu-bi-mi-oya-no-mikoto, the same deity as the one mentioned at the beginning of these \"Records\" under the shorter title of Kami-musu-hi-no-kami. (See Sect. I. Note 6.)","title":"The Kojiki: Volume I: Section XVII.\u2014The August Expu...","type":"page"}