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Invocation announcing the undertaking before the ancestral portraits on the day of the Palgwan festival, at the turning of the moving platform八關日祖眞前動臺告事祝
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.
講此禮文。已致在天之風馭。寓玆機巧。將旋殷地之雷輪。先告端由。庶無驚駭。
Having practiced these rites of ceremony, we have already brought the wind-chariot of the souls that dwell in heaven. Let those souls lodge in this wondrous contrivance; we are about to turn the thunder-wheel that shakes the earth.
We announce the reason beforehand; we beg you not to be startled.