[ [307] Koyane. Hirata speaks with scorn of the Chinese methods of divining current in Japan in later times, in which no invocation of the Gods was used. Sometimes other Gods, and even Buddhas, were invoked.
[ [308] "The King of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to perform divination."--Ezekiel xxi. 21.
[ [309] Pausanias says that in ancient Greece the inquirer, after asking his question of the God and making his offering, took as the divine answer the first words he might hear on quitting the sanctuary.
[ [310] The date of the festival of the Sahe no Kami.
[ [312] The Kami-yori-ita (God-resort-board), struck in later times to bring down the Gods, is believed to be a substitute for this harp.
[ [313] It is not known who these Gods were.
[ [314] Smaller gohei used in the harahi ceremony.
[ [315] Weston, 'Mountaineering in the Japanese Alps,' p. 307. See also [Index], Inugami; and Mr. Chamberlain's 'Things Japanese,' third edition, p. 110.