24. The Cup Pledge
1Again this Deity’s Chief Empress, Her Augustness the Forward-Princess, was very jealous. So the Deity her husband, being distressed, was about to go up from Idzumo to the Land of Yamato; and as he stood attired, with one august hand on the saddle of his august horse and one august foot in the august stirrup, he sang, saying:
2Then his Empress, taking a great august liquor-cup, and drawing near and offering it to him, sang, saying:—
3She having thus sung, they at once pledged [each other] by the cup with [their hands] on [each other’s] necks, and are at rest till the present time. These are called divine words.
WEBREATH · 11:11
«From the true-mist of her breath Gods were born» — Nihongi 1:7
Breath is one for all: everyone lives by it, whoever they are and whatever they believe. Every day at 11:11 local time people stop for sixty seconds, breathe, and thank GOD for the breath — each in their own words, each within themselves. In that minute we are One Breath.
WEBREATH — the Minute at 11:11, your own local time — we are One Breath