External cover title: 黃泉秘語 [huangquan miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and some for the salvation of the deceased. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙卯年十一月二十五日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1915 / 1975. Extent ...
Title of the first text: 初真秘語早脫使用 [chuzhen miyu zaotuo shiyong]. External cover title: 初真秘語 [chuzhen miyu]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 甲申年. Calendar note: Stem-branc...
External cover title and title of the first text: 洪恩秘語 [hong'en miyu]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 更子年八月初一. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1900 / 1960. Extent and format of o...
Title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. External cover title: 救患科 [jiuhuan ke ]. 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 join the ceremony at the same time. “This is you, thi...
External cover title: 一本師意科 [yiben shiyi ke ]. Instructions about providing offerings for the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁亥年. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1887 / 1947. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 118 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 化依科 [huayi ke ]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 任子年六月初六完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1912 / 1972. ...
External cover title: 一本說醮科 [yiben shuojiao ke ]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚戌歲十月十五日完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1850 / 1910...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 110 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 延生目 神目科 [Yansheng mu shenmu ke]. Shenmu:Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, etc...
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 [Nanlingke]. 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 the manuscript...