[155] Here the Boy Dancer begins to dance the Dream-dance.
[156] On the third day of the third month people floated cups in the stream. Each person as the cup passed in front of him, had to compose a poem and drink the contents of the cup.
[157] These words also describe the dancer’s movements.
[158] The Moon.
[159] See Waley, Japanese Poetry, p. 77.
[160] I. e. Buddha, the Law and the Priesthood. A pious exclamation of astonishment like the Spanish “Jesù, Maria José!”
[161] The Sun is male, i. e. fair. The Moon female, i. e. foul.
[162] The demons of Delusion, of the Senses, of the Air and of Death.
[163] The Sun.
[164] The heresy of Nihilism. To say that phenomena do not exist is as untrue as to say that they exist.