Text of the Chorye rite (醮禮) offered to Taiyi (太一)太一醮禮文
違命則征。本司馬九伐之法。主兵所在。惟太一十眞之威。昔新羅之向衰。困百濟之肆虐。方甄氏之銳卒。逼以重圍。微太祖之救兵。幾無噍類。及擧國而內屬。亦受賜之不貲。夫何獷俗之無知。忘我先王之大德。一受人飯而有不負其恩者。可爲國民而其若是之甚乎。謂天誅之可逋。陷塗迷而不復。罪難可赦。神亦豈容。當師律之是陳。冀威靈之丕佑。寔嚴信薦。仰扣冲聞。伏願白刃一揮。見巨鯨之就戮。長弧所射。無孽狐之敢逃。云云。
To strike at those who defy the command is from of old among the nine modes of chastisement of the Minister of War (司馬), and the presiding over armies rests only with the majesty of Taiyi (太一) and the ten Perfected Ones.
Long ago, when Silla was falling into decay, it was harried by the harsh ferocity of Baekje. Just as the swift troops of the Gyeon clan (甄氏) pressed it about in ring upon ring, had there been no relieving army of Taejo, scarcely a soul would have survived. And after it gave up its kingdom and attached itself within, the favor it received was likewise beyond reckoning.
How then has a ferocious custom come to be so witless as to forget the great virtue of our former king? There are men who, having once eaten of another's rice, do not turn their backs upon that kindness; how can those who have been the people of this kingdom be as bad as this?
Thinking that heaven's punishment may be fled from, they have sunk in the mire and lost the road and do not come back. Their guilt is hard to forgive; and how should even the gods suffer them?
Fitly, then, we spread the army's discipline here, and look for the great help of your majestic spirit. Hereupon we respectfully set up sincere offerings and look up and knock at your hidden hearing.
Prostrate we pray that at one sweep of the white blade we may see the great whale cut down, and that where the long bow shoots, the uncanny fox may not dare to flee. And so forth.