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41. The Mound of the Metal Spade

1Again when the Heavenly Sovereign made a progress to Kasuga to wed Princess Wodo, daughter of the Grandee Satsuki of Wani, a maiden met him by the way, and forthwith seeing the Imperial progress, ran and hid on the side of a mound. So he composed an august Song. That august Song said:

2“Oh! the mound where the maiden is hiding! Oh for five hundred metal spades! then might [we] dig her out!”

3So that mound was called by the name of the Mound of the Metal Spade.

source: Kojiki · Basil Hall Chamberlain (1882) · Wikisource

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