External cover title: 一本伸斗科 [yiben shendou ke ]. Ceremony for the ‘old people’. Basic ceremony to introduce them to the deities of the elders. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲庚辰年八月初二日辰時抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1940 / 2000. Extent an...
External cover title: 一煉度 二給從人 三材樓契 四從人契 五馬契 科共本 [yi liandu er geicongren san cailouqi si congrenqi wu maqi ke gongben ]. Liandu: Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Cailou:Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. Date(s) c...
External cover title: 一本笠旛茭簡破獄科共本 [yiben lifan jiaojian poyu ke gongben ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the underworld and collect the dead. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲庚辰年六月二十一日未時抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system ...
External cover title: 齋醮神目科 [zhaijiao shenmu ke ]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 60 folios.
External cover title: 延生貢王救苦宿啟科共一本 [yansheng gongwang jiuku suqi ke gongyiben ]. Ceremony to announce various gods in advance (namely Suqi), as a preparation period of the whole ritual. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬戌年六月中旬十六日申時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle:...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 安龍儀 [Anlong yi]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 下元甲子歲咸豐拾月初二日抄完成. Calendar note: Various units bounded toge...
External cover title: 通用神目同一本 [tongyong shenmu tongyiben ]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 96 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 萬載雜良通書 [Wanzai zaliang tongshu]. A manual of the Chinese sexagesimal stem-branches system, constellation system, auspicious day and so on. Extent and format of original ma...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [南靈科] [[nanling ke]]. Nanling: Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Date(s) claimed in ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本救患 [Yiben jiuhuan]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to j...