Separate Chorye text offered before the Great Emperor of Heaven天皇前別醮文
云云。將以伐下國。雖云擧義之王師。如欲得天時。敢不徼福於上帝。徵前史之遺記。考東京之厥初。方太祖受命而勃興。有金傅納土而自附。是豈攻城而後取。良由慕義之所然。嘉乃忠誠。冊厥君於尙父之位。存其舊國。崇玆號以留守之司。何後世之民。忘前代之好。非特亂紀逆常之已甚。抑其殘民害物者滋多。拒我上都。雖無異螗蜋之怒臂。原其虐迹。不奈如豺虎之流涎。故聲其罪以將征。非實我君之本意。人所怒也。天其忍諸。聊陳洞酌之儀。仰乞至靈之助。冀歆明信。遄降顯威。大兵所臨。若碬投卵。群賊自熄。如火燎毛。云云。
And so forth. We are about to strike at the lower kingdom; and though this be the army of a sovereign who has raised the standard of righteousness, yet since we would get heaven's own season, how should we not dare to pray to the High Emperor for blessing?
Looking into the records left from the former age and reckoning up the beginnings of the Eastern Capital (東京): just as Taejo received the command and rose greatly, Kim Bu (金傅) offered up his land and attached himself of his own accord. How was this a thing got by assaulting walls? Truly it came of a longing after righteousness. Delighting in that loyalty, he invested its king in the place of Sangbo (尙父, Revered Father), and left its old kingdom as it was, exalting this name and making of it the office of the Resident Commissioner (留守).
How is it that the people of a later age have forgotten the good of the former age? Not only is their confounding of the bonds and their defiance of what is constant already grievous, but their harming of the people and their seizing of goods is greater still. Their setting themselves against our upper capital (上都) is no different from the anger of a mantis that raises up its arms; yet when one digs into the traces of their harshness, what is to be done, seeing it is like the slavering of jackals and tigers?
Therefore to lay bare their guilt and strike them is truly not our sovereign's root intent. It is a thing men too are angered at; and would even heaven bear with it?
For what it is worth we spread the rite of offering the cup, and look up and pray for the help of your utmost spirit. Savor our bright good faith and quickly send down your manifest majesty, so that wherever the great army comes it be like throwing a stone at an egg, and the wasting away of the brigand throng of itself be like fire singeing hair. And so forth.
Interlinear notes 1
下國 — a lowering way of speaking of the Eastern Capital (Gyeongju), the secondary capital. Gaegyeong, the court, is called the upper capital (上都) or the upper kingdom (上國). — Translator