"'_We are now in person[92] about to celebrate a festival to Taka-mi-musubi. I appoint thee Ruler of the festival, and grant thee the title of Idzu-hime.[93] The earthen jars which are set up shall be called the Idzube, or sacred jars; the fire shall be called Idzu no Kagu-tsuchi, or sacred-fire-father; the water shall be called Idzu no Midzu-ha no me, or sacred-water-female; the food shall be called Idzu-uka no me, or sacred-food-female; the firewood shall be called Idzu no Yama-tsuchi, or sacred-mountain-father; and the grass shall be called Idzu no No-tsuchi, or sacred-moor-father._'" "_In Winter, the 10th month, on the 1st day,[94] the Emperor tasted the food of the Idzube, and arraying his troops set forth upon his march._" Among those who made submission to Jimmu was Nigi-haya-hi, of whom it is told that he was a child of the Heavenly Deity, who had come down from Heaven riding in the "Rock-boat of Heaven," and married the sister of a local chieftain named Naga-sune-hiko (Prince Long-shanks). His name and that of his son appear very frequently in the _Shôjiroku_ genealogies. Jimmu took to wife a daughter of the God Koto-shiro-nushi, or, according to the _Kojiki_, Oho-mono-nushi, by a mortal woman, and having established his capital at Kashi-habara, in Yamato, B.C. 660,[95] reigned there until his death, B.C. 585, at the age of 127. FOOTNOTES: [51] See 'Rig-veda,' x. 129, for a similar rationalistic dissertation on the origin of the universe. Here and below the italics indicate translations. [52] In Chinese, _Yin_ and _Yang_. The _Yin_ is the dark, negative, passive, feminine, and terrene principle; the _Yang_ is light, positive, active, male, and celestial. [53] 'Philosophy of Religion,' i. 269. [54] "Into human shape" is another version. [55] I shall usually omit this purely honorific addition to the names of Japanese Gods and sovereigns. [56] Hirata says that "the five generations of deities which in the _Kojiki_ precede Izanagi and Izanami are only names descriptive of the successive stages of formation of these deities. Their functions are obscure, and they have no shrines or worship. They are unnecessary, as all that are required are two Gods for the creation of Heaven, two of Yomi and two of Earth." [57] There is a close association in Hebrew between the ideas of creation and begetting. _Bara_, create, and _jalad_, beget, are often interchanged. [58] See Index. [59] See Index. [60] It was deprived of this character soon after by order of the Mikado's Government, the only monument of the old cult left standing being Nantai (male form), a mountain which towers above Nikko to the height of 8,500 feet. [61] 'Sociology,' ii. 177. [62] See Index, 'Circumambulation.' Also Simpson's 'Praying Wheel,' p. 285, and Jevons's 'Introduction to Religion,' p. 210. The corresponding Highland ceremony, called Deasil, is described in Sir Walter Scott's 'Fair Maid of Perth.' See also Brand's 'British Antiquities.' [63] I 324.