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The subject of the seasonal sacrifices is resumed. A piece of wood was fixed across the horns of the victim-bulls, to prevent their injuring them by pushing or rubbing against any hard substance. An animal injured in any way was not fit to be used in sacrifice. In sacrificing to the duke of Kau, a white bull was used by way of distinction.
The lady is introduced arrayed in the gorgeous robes worn by the princess of a state in the ancestral temple. The sovereigns of Kau were Wang or kings. She has come down from heaven I She is a spiritual being! 3 Ting is the name of a small space in the heavens, embracing /alpha/ Markab and another star of Pegasus.
With the dynasty of Shang white had been the esteemed and sacred colour, as red was with Kau, and hence the duke had his carriage drawn by white horses. 'The language, says one critic, 'is all in praise of the visitor, but it was sung in the temple, and is rightly placed therefore among the Sung. There is, in the last line, an indication of the temple in it. The noble visitor! The noble visitor!
Going to lay their dispute before the lord of Kau, as soon as they entered his territory, they saw the ploughers readily yielding the furrow, and travellers yielding the path, while men and women avoided one another on the road, and old people had no burdens to carry. At his court, they beheld the officers of each inferior grade giving place to those above them.
Was like an eagle on the wing, Assisting king Wu, Who at one onset smote the great Shang. 'The ancient duke Than-fu' was the grandfather of king Wan, and was canonized by the duke of Kau as 'king Thai. As mentioned in a note on p. 316, he was the first of his family to settle in Kau, removing there from Pin. the site of their earlier settlement, 'the country about the Khue and the Khi.
The general conclusion to which we come is, that the existing Shih is the fragment of various collections made during the early reigns of the kings of Kau, and added to at intervals, especially on the occurrence of a prosperous rule, in accordance with the regulation that has been preserved in the Li Ki.
Then Laheu, an old warrior in another canoe, cried out that they should return on their track a little and get into deep water; "for," said he, "if we swamp, away from Tia Kau, it is but a little thing, but here " and he clasped his hands rapidly together and then tore them apart.
The composition of this and the other pieces of this decade is attributed to the duke of Kau, king Wan's son, and was intended by him for the benefit of his nephew, the young king Khang. Wan, it must be borne in mind, was never actually king of China. He laid the foundations of the kingly power, which was established by his son king Wu, and consolidated by the duke of Kau.
So far as evidence goes, we should say, but for this ode, that the name of Khu was not in use till long after the Shang dynasty. In consequence of this some critics make this piece out to have been composed under the Kau dynasty.
"Kaú fai!" shrilled the voices below; and then in a fainter gabble, as though hurrying off toward the sound, "kaú fai!" "The Black Dog," said Heywood, quietly. "He has barked. Earlier than we figured, Gilly. Lucky the scaffolding's up. Gentlemen, we all know our posts. Guns are in the first bedroom. Quietly, now. Rudie, go call Chantel. Don't frighten the women.
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