Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-02
I,oaus Mighty War God From
Whom the Present MiEado is
Descended, is Restless.
SPIRIT WORSHIP ENCOURAGED.
And One Result is That the Nation
Cares More for its Army
Than Commerce.
a..ini corresnondence.

snecial correspondence
,oodon. Dec. EFT looks now more
,hon ever. despite the treaties and ru-
,,ors Of treaties, AS II the new year
,.o,ld soe the bursting Of the storm
,loud that hovers over Russia ana
1anan. At any rate, Japan's chief war
GOA il now the recipient Of unusual
attention from the faithful, and there
"a M indication that his august iniiu-
orce IL being cXerted tn cool the war
,eyer that Is burning In the veins OF
the masses in the land Of the rising sun.
Hachiman, the Japanese god of war
was three years being born, and he
STAYED on earth 1870 years before he re-
armed TO the place where the gods live.
nnring the three years prior to his
birth his mother, lingo, a lady Mikado,
was busy in Corea or Chosen, the land
~ the Morning Calm, which country
she was eager to annihilate. Not that
she had anything against Corea, but
because she had been told In a dream
20 20 there. In those days dreams
we're no joke, especially imperial
dreams. They We're messages from the
other world. To dlsbelieve them was
dangerous. as was manifest In the case
of Jingo's husband, the Mikado Aruma-
slmai.
Arumasumai did not believe his
dream about Corea. He laughed In his
sleep when his message came, and IN
tbe morning said II was all rot. There
Was no such place as COrea. He had
been up to the tipmost top Of the tall
most tree on the highmost hill and had
looked away over'west quite TO the end
and there was nothing th~ere-nothing
a, all. Arumasumai having said this,
lingo became a widow, Then she went
to COrca.
SHE WENT on A DOLPHIN's BACK,
Some say that she went over on the
back Of a pink dolphin. The pink dol
phin he'd had a dream message also,
and carried out his instructions grace
fully, II report be true. Jing0's army
I'D not use dolphins, 1t went over IN
junks.
To her surprise lingo was not sick,
but soon after her arrival In the land
Of the Morning Calm most Of the CO.
reans were, She was not surprised at
this. To make them so was her pur-
pose. She kept at this purpose day and
night for three years, and then, there
not being enough left Of Morning Calm
land for even "A headache to maintain
itself upon, she returned, and the god
or war was born.
lingo did not call him God Of War,
Her name for him was Ojin, DIN was
quite as good "A name as God of War
when 1t was necessary for mama to
summon her little one into the august
presence for a spanking. She had
taught him rather slow. but she got
the better OF this trait eventually and
brought him up to rule the land of the
Rising Sun efficiently for something
Ike loo years after she herself august
by departed"
This vas at the beginning Of the
third century a. ID. According to the
Kojikl Oiin's family had been Sunrise
rulers $50 years. That Is the date on
which Jimmu Tenno stepped down
from ne sky ana began earthly bust
ness as mikado. Jimmu had had trou e
bic with the o|utochthons, and so had
his children and grandchildren on down
TO Jlngo's time, so that fighting was
natural 10 DIN by heredlty. even II
he had not had so much parental ey.
perencc. The autochthons We're quite