1. "Then His Augustness the Great-High-Integrating-Deity again commanded and taught, saying: "August son of the Heavenly Deity! make no progress hence into the interior. The savage Deities are very numerous. I will now send from Heaven a crow eight feet long. So that crow eight feet long shall guide thee. Thou must make thy progress following after it as it goes." So on His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko making his progress following after the crow eight feet long in obedience to the Deity's instructions, he reached the lower course of the Yeshinu river, where there was a person catching fish in a weir. Then the august child of the Heavenly Deity asked, saying: "Who art thou?" He replied, saying: "I am an Earthly Deity and am called by the name of Nihe-motsu no Ko." This is the ancestor of the Cormorant-Keepers of Aha. On His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko making his progress thence, a person with a tail came out of a well. The well shone. Then His Augustness asked: "Who art thou?" He replied, saying: "I am an Earthly Deity, and my name is Wi-hika." This is the ancestor of the Headmen of Yeshinu. On his forthwith entering the mountains, His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko again met a person with a tail. This person came forth pushing the cliffs apart. Then His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko asked: "Who art thou?" He replied, saying; "I am an Earthly Deity, and my name is Iha-oshi-waku no Ko. I heard just now that the august son of the Heavenly Deity was making his progress. So it is for that that I have come to meet thee." This is the ancestor of the Territorial Owners of Yeshinu. Thence His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko penetrated over on foot to Uda. So they say: "The Ugachi of Uda."

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What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

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The application source is AGPL-3.0. Generated text downloads and their structured arrangement are CC BY-SA 4.0; the underlying historic source texts are treated as public-domain inputs. The corpus metadata therefore describes the distributed arrangement with its CC BY-SA license rather than the Public Domain Mark.

Concordance and Related Passages

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

Deep Linking

Every chapter and verse has a permanent URL. Chapter links follow the pattern /scripture/{work}/{book}-{chapter} (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1 for Genesis 1). Verse links append the verse number (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1:26 for Genesis 1:26). These URLs can be shared, bookmarked, or cited directly.

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