[The Religions of Japan by William Elliot Griffis]@TWC D-Link bookThe Religions of Japan CHAPTER I - PRIMITIVE FAITH: RELIGION BEFORE BOOKS 2/2
Excepting stories ...
and a few almost metreless songs, the Ainos have no other literature at all."-- Aino Studies. "I asked the earth, and it answered, 'I am not He;' and whatsoever are therein made the same confession.
I asked the sea and the deep and the creeping things that lived, and they replied, 'We are not thy God; seek higher than we.' ...
And I answered unto all things which stand about the door of my flesh, 'Ye have told me concerning my God, that ye are not he; tell me something about him.' And with a loud voice they explained, 'It is He who hath made us!'"-- Augustine's Confessions. "Seek Him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name."-- Amos. "That which hath been made was life in Him."-- John..
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