 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1899 - 1086 pages
...China. It runs as follows : — " Of old, Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the In and Yd 1 not yet divided. They formed a chaotic mass like an...contained germs. The purer and clearer part was thinly diffused and formed heaven, while the heavier and grosser element settled down and became earth. The... | |
 | William George Aston - Japan - 1905 - 426 pages
...China.* It runs as follows : — " Of old, Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the In and Yo\ not yet divided. They formed a chaotic mass like an...contained germs. The purer and clearer part was thinly diffused and formed Heaven, while the heavier and grosser element settled down and became Earth. The... | |
 | Horace Grant Underwood - Buddhism - 1910 - 292 pages
...into oblivion. Says the Kojiki : " Of old, heaven and earth were not yet separated, and In and Yo not divided. They formed a chaotic mass, like an egg,...contained germs. The purer and clearer part was thinly diffused and formed heaven, while the heavier and grosser element settled down and became earth. The... | |
 | Lancelot Lawton - East Asia - 1912 - 766 pages
...of the world. " Of old," it is written, " Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the In and Yo (female and male principles) not yet divided. They...chaotic mass, like an egg, which was of obscurely denned limits and contained germs. The purer and clearer part was thinly drawn out, and formed Heaven,... | |
 | Ernest Wilson Clement - Japan - 1915 - 218 pages
...of the Nihongi, as follows: Of old, Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the male and female principles not yet divided. They formed a chaotic mass, like an egg, which was of obscurely denned limits and contained germs. The purer and clearer part was thinly drawn out and formed Heaven,... | |
 | Roger Whiting - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1991 - 292 pages
...700 CE; it was compiled in 720 CE. For example: Of old. Heaven and Earth were not yet separated . . . They formed a chaotic mass like an egg which was of obscurely defined limits and contained germs . . . Heaven was therefore formed first, and Earth was established subsequently. Thereafter Divine... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...Chou Tun-yi, 1, 2 (11th century) 10 Of old, Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the In and Yo not yet divided. They formed a chaotic mass like an...contained germs. The purer and clearer part was thinly diffused and formed Heaven, while the heavier and grosser element settled down and became Earth. Nihongi,... | |
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Of old, Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the In and Yo\ not yet divided. They formed a chaotic mass like an egg, which was of obscurely defined limits, and contained germs. The purer and clearer part was thinly diffused and formed Heaven,... 