Identifier: japanjapaneseill00humb (find matches)
Title: Japan and the Japanese illustrated
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908
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Publisher: London : R. Bentley & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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:4 LIFE IN JAPAN. In the second period, a series of seven celestial dynasties symbolizes the formationof the various elements. The first three dynasties are regulated by the male principle, created under theaction of the Celestial Reason. During the four later dynasties, there is a passive co-existence of the male withthe female principle, formed under the action of the Terrestrial Reason. Then, all the elements being prepared, the definitive creation was accomplished bythe action of the last couple of the celestial gods, and in two successive phases:firstly, by the union, still purely spiritual, of the two cj-existent principles, which ismanifested by the creation of Japan; and secondly, Ijy a physical union, which givesl)irth ti) the dynasty of the terrestrial gods, of whom four generations are reckoned. The last ends in Zinmou-ten-woo, the founder of the dynasty of the )\Iikad()s. After this brief summary, which contains everything in which we can establish aparallel between the Ch

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