prayer-makers

Updated: May 31, 2025

We read of physicians, blind musicians, poets, teachers, prayer-makers, architects, scribes, painters, diviners, ceremonialists, orators, and others during the Feudal Period, These professions were of ecclesiastical origin, not yet completely differentiated from the 'Church, and both in earlier and later times not always or often differentiated from each other.

E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner - Myths and Legends of China