ranging-in-rows

Updated: May 8, 2025

And if the sovran gods will take these great offerings which I set up, piling them up like a range of hills, peacefully in their hearts, as peaceful offerings and satisfactory offerings; and if the sovran gods, deigning not to visit the things produced by, the great People of the region under heaven with bad winds and rough waters, will open and bless them, I will at the autumn service set up the first fruits, raising high the beer-jars, filling and ranging-in-rows the bellies of the beer-jars, and drawing them hither in juice and in ear, in many hundred rice-plants and a thousand rice-plants.

Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation