[Text] Heaven follows Kannagara - Week 1, Day 1

[kannagara_gods]

[ This message, posted in gold lettering, is the first thing your character will see when they discover their Hitomi. Feel free to have them comment here, or react in the open log, or in other posts to the network. ]

There is something that is perfect in its disorder
Which is born before Heaven and Earth.

So silent and desolate! It establishes itself without renewal.
Functions universally without lapse.
We can regard it as the mother of Everything.

Greatness entails transcendence.
Transcendence entails going-far.
Going-far entails return.

Hence, the Path is great, Heaven is great, the Earth is great
And the human is also great.

Within our realm there are four greatnesses and the
human being is one of them.

Human beings follow the Earth.
Earth follows Heaven
Heaven follows Kannagara
Kannagara follows the way things are.

[Note: "Earth" here is a translation of 世界, which means "the world." It does not refer to "Earth" the planet, or "earth" as in soil/the ground, but instead, the general "world" as a whole. "Heaven" here is not the Christian heaven, but instead 天国, or the "kingdom in the sky." ]