THE SACRED MIRROR
IMie Sacred Mirror of Japan, "half '&s old as Time/ has been enshrined among tho Imperial Tombs. It was taken "there with every sign of reverence and every symbol of pagflantry, for, though, the Japanese are the most modern of nations, they are in their worship of tho Past tho most ancient of peoples. The Sun goddess was the divine Mother Eve of the Japanese people.
Her mirror must always be kept bright and ■clean. It must be housed in a dwelling that matches it for unsullied cleanliness. Consequently every twenty-years a new temple to contain the mirror is built of white wood.
To the new shrine, gleaming white an a grovo of pine trees, the mirror was taken, from the old shrine- where it had been housed. The two shrines are closo to one another. Beacons were lit at sundown. The old shrine was consumed by fire, and next day pilgrims came by thousands to the new.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 8, 10 January 1931, Page 15
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161THE SACRED MIRROR Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 8, 10 January 1931, Page 15
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