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But he saw her lying swollen and festering among worms; and eight kinds of Thunder-Gods sat upon her .... And Izanagi, being overawed by that sight, would have fled away; but Izanami rose up, crying: "Thou hast put me to shame! Why didst thou not observe that which I charged thee?... Thou hast seen my nakedness; now I will see thine!"
But again the rat met him with apologies, and, as a peace-offering, gave him a cap for his head. These events account for the thick cap of erect feathers which the owl wears to this day, and also for the enmity between the owl and the rat. ii. The Loves of the Thunder-Gods. Two young thunder-gods, sons of the chief thunder-god, fell violently in love with the same Aino woman.
Say where do the March winds such treasures uncover, Such maple and arrowwood burn in the fall, As up the blue peaks where the thunder-gods hover In cloud-curtained Berkshire who cradled us all?
Their earliest sacred records do, indeed, make mention of an underworld, where mysterious Thunder-gods and evil goblins dwelt in corruption; but this vague world of the dead communicated with the world of the living; and the spirit there, though in some sort attached to its decaying envelope, could still receive upon earth the homage and the offerings of men.
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