Text of the three libations of the Taeil offering rite at Chungju — third libation忠州大一醮禮三獻文 三獻文
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 106 Chinese characters · reading time 1.1 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 39 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.
What does Heaven say? Without words it takes charge of the calamity and the blessing of all living things. The most honored among the gods takes charge of carrying out the eight governances in yin and yang.
Looking back, with a worthless substance I have wrongly succeeded to this vast royal work. Morning and evening I think upon it, and there is not one day of easy rest. If the state is to be brought into concord and peace, I must needs lean upon the protection of the ten True Ones. So I choose out the ground upon which you shine down and are present, and spread out the pure ceremony.
Partake, and swiftly add your faithful help. Let the six airs not go awry, that wind and rain keep their measure and cold and heat come in their season; let the three husbandries be brought to fulfillment, so that sow-thistle and knotweed rot while millet and panic grow thick; and let spear and shield be hidden away, that the whole world be at peace and clear.