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Although, from time to time minor sects were formed either limiting or developing further the principles of the larger parent sects, and although, even as late as the seventeenth century, a new subsect, the Oba-ku of Zen Shu, was imported from China, yet no further doctrinal developments of importance took place; not even in presence of or after sixteenth century Christianity and seventeenth century Confucianism.
By my fig! said she, swearing, I'll go no further And if I do, replied the other, they shall make a drum of my hide. And so with one consent they stopp'd thus Get on with you, said the abbess. Wh...ysh ysh cried Margarita. Sh...a shu..u shu..u sh..aw shaw'd the abbess. Whu v w whew w w whuv'd Margarita, pursing up her sweet lips betwixt a hoot and a whistle.
Thus Shu became the new Sun-god in the place of Ra, and the heavens in which Ra lived were supported and placed beyond the risk of falling, and mankind would live and rejoice in the light of the new sun.
But there's so much to be done in every place Bashkai, Khawak, Shu, and everywhere else. "'What is it? I says. 'There are no more men coming in to be drilled this autumn. Look at those fat black clouds. They're bringing the snow.
The count of Wei was made duke of Sung by king Wu of Kau, as related in the Shu, V, viii, there to continue the sacrifices of the House of Shang; but the government of Sung fell subsequently into disorder, and the memorials of the dynasty were lost. It is supposed that seven of these were lost subsequently, before the collection of the Shih was formed.
Several gods and goddesses, as Shû, Anhûr, Bast, Sekhet, Tefnût, have the form of the lion or of the cat; and inasmuch as the worship of these deities was more popular in the Delta than elsewhere, so there never passes a year when from amid the ruins of Bubastis, Tanis, Mendes, or some less famous city, there is not dug up a store of little figures of lions and lionesses, or of men and women with lions' heads, or cats' heads.
The high priests of Shin Shu have ever held a high position and wielded vast influence in the religious development of the people.
Shu Kofa made some effort to oppose the Manchu armies, and even assumed the command in person, although he was only a civilian, but his troops had no heart to oppose the Manchus, and the devices to which he resorted to make his military power appear more formidable were both puerile and ineffective. Yet one passage may be quoted to his credit if it gave his opponent an advantage.
Nearly all are from temples in Matsue or its vicinity; and the Buddhist ones indicate by the sacred words upon them to what particular shu or sect, the family belong for nearly every soul in this community professes some form of Buddhism as well as the all-dominant and more ancient faith of Shinto.
Just now he swayed along with a pair of heavy baskets slung on a bamboo all the way from Wu Shu, as the pilgrim under his load of sin, and as he swayed he sang in a weak falsetto a ditty which sounded like "Nam mo pen shih shih chia Man tan lai lei tsun fo; Hu fa chu t'ien p'u sa, An fu ssu, Li she tzn."
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