Sacrificial address offered to a god祭神文
謹以蔬菓淸酌之奠。致祭于城隍大王之靈。予吏于玆。蔬茹猶不續。而有獵夫致一鹿于門。予徵其由。則曰此州自古每月旦。使吾等貢一鹿若雉兔充祭肉。然後衙吏等受公之俸。備酒饌致祭于城隍。此成例也。予怒而鞭之曰。汝何不稟於吾而爲是耶。凡不拒乃州之苞苴饋餉。而致山之麕麖𤜵兔熊踏象白之肉。海之鮫鯔鰋鯉晨鳧露鵠之羞。崇積於前者。不忍獨享滋味。其獻于大王宜矣。豈以予蔬食之窮。約月殺生物圖神之肥。而積罪予躬耶。神若正直。亦不予是望也。因戒衙吏。自今不復奠肉。其蔬菓酒饌之設。則任爾爲也。予之約束如此。未審大王諒之何如也。伏惟寬之。毋以予頑然不遵舊典也。
Having prepared the offerings of greens and fruit and clear wine, I make sacrifice before the spirit of the Great King of the City Walls.
While I hold office here I cannot even set out greens, and yet some hunter brought a deer to my gate. When I asked him the reason, he said this: "In this district it has been the practice from of old that on the first of every month we present a deer, or pheasants and hares, to fill out the sacrificial meat. After that the clerks receive the magistrate's emolument, prepare wine and food, and sacrifice to the city god; this is a settled custom." I grew angry and had him flogged, saying, "How is it that you do such a thing without asking me?"
Now if I did not refuse the gifts and the food that the district sends in, and if roe deer and deer and hares and bear's paws and fat meats from the mountains, and shark and mullet and catfish and carp from the sea, and food such as dawn ducks and dew-wet swans, were piled high before me, then, unable to bear enjoying such delicacies alone, it would be fitting to present them to the Great King. But how should I, in my poor state of eating nothing but greens, make a compact to kill living things month by month, and so scheme to fatten a god and heap up that sin upon my own body? If the god is upright, he too will not want this of me.
And so I have told the clerks that from now on they are never again to offer meat. To set out greens and fruit and wine and food, I said, is left to you. What I have settled upon is this, and I do not know how the Great King will weigh it. Prostrate I beg that you look upon it generously, and do not think that I stubbornly refuse to follow the old rule.
Interlinear notes 1
全州祭城隍致告文○無韻
This is the text announced in sacrifice to the city god at Jeonju. It has no rhyme.