heaven's manifold clouds, and to descend from heaven, with
orders tranquilly to rule the country of fresh spikes, which
flourishes in the midst of the reed-moor as a peaceful country,
what god shall we send first to divinely sweep away, sweep away
and subdue the gods who are turbulent in the country of fresh
spikes;" all the gods pondered and declared: "You shall send
Amenohohi's augustness, and subdue them," declared
they. Wherefore they sent him down from heaven, but he did not
declare an answer; and having next sent Takemikuma's augustness,
he also, obeying his father's words, did not declare an
answer. Ame-no-waka-hiko also, whom they sent, did not declare
an answer, but immediately perished by the calamity of a bird on
high. Wherefore they pondered afresh by the WORD of the heavenly
gods, and having deigned to send down from heaven the two
pillars of gods, Futsunushi and Takemika-dzuchi's augustness,
who having deigned divinely to sweep away, and sweep away, and
deigned divinely to soften, and soften the gods who were
turbulent, and silenced the rocks, trees, and the least leaf of
herbs likewise that had spoken, they caused the Sovran
GRANDCHILD'S augustness to descend from heaven.

I fulfil your praises, saying: As to the OFFERINGS set up, so
that the sovran gods who come into the heavenly HOUSE of the
Sovran GRANDCHILD'S augustness, which, after he had fixed upon
as a peaceful country--the country of great Yamato where the sun
is high, as the centre of the countries of the four quarters
bestowed upon him when he was thus sent down from
heaven--stoutly planting the HOUSE-pillars on the bottom-most
rocks, and exalting the cross-beams to the plain of high heaven,
the builders had made for his SHADE from the heavens and SHADE
from the sun, and wherein he will tranquilly rule the country as
a peaceful country--may, without deigning to be turbulent,
deigning to be fierce, and deigning to hurt, knowing, by virtue
of their divinity, the things which were begun in the plain of
high heaven, deigning to correct with Divine-correcting and
Great-correcting, remove hence out to the clean places of the
mountain-streams which look far away over the four quarters, and
rule them as their own place. Let the Sovran gods tranquilly
take with clear HEARTS, as peaceful OFFERINGS and su