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Invocation for the Seven Sacrifices at the winter offering in the Great Ancestral Shrine冬享大廟七祀祝
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.
饗于祖禰。禮方致於燔毛。邀爾神明。祀特先於薦腎。庶同九廟。益衛三韓。
In offering at the shrines of grandfather and father, the rite now reaches the burning of the hair; and in welcoming their spirits, the sacrifice uniquely puts the presenting of the kidneys first.
We pray that, together with the nine shrines, you guard the Three Han the more.