Text for the offering rite praying for peace after the repair of the Hall of the Great Emperor of Heaven at Suncheongwan順天館天皇堂修理後保安醮禮文
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 · 94 Chinese characters · reading time 1 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 40 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.
You have essence and are exceedingly true, and so dwell in the jade palace above the heavens; and you rescue all things and cast none away, and so have left a house of beads in the world of men.
Some while ago, because the ridgepole and the house had tilted and fallen in, we thereupon commanded the artisans to build and join it anew. For this we moved the appointments of the offering rite and so stirred the seat where you had always dwelt. When the work had just been finished, we chose a day and settled you back again in peace.
Thereupon we set forth the constant sacrifice and reverently knock upon your hidden shade. I pray that you come to this poor ceremony and bend down to lend us the sending down of your regard and your partaking.
Turn back your true wandering to this shining house, for you have already kept your divine lodging here; and from the layered heavens send down your precious regard, that abundant blessing may be the more at peace.