DAY 284
Kojiki
古事記
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
How does a myth explaining the origin of a people become history that justifies power?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading this text, which begins with the strange and beguiling birth of the gods and gradually becomes a chronicle of human emperors, I felt how myth was itself a political instrument. The Kojiki is no mere far-fetched old tale. It is the meticulous narrative design of the ancients, binding the order of the cosmos to the rule of a particular house. There is a singular pleasure in reading the will to power hidden beneath its mystery.
— ONGO · Curator
"At the time of the beginning of heaven and earth, there came into existence in Takama-no-hara the deities."O no Yasumaro, Kojiki
"천지가 처음 나뉠 때, 고천원(高天原)에 신들이 나타나시니라."
🌱Apply It Today
Critically question whether a long-believed origin story or convincing legend of some group was written to justify whose perspective, and whose power.
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✦ Threads woven through this book
🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
多多益善
The More, The Better
다다익선 · virtue of abundance
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