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...
External cover title: 一本道範科 [yiben daofan ke]. Basic book for the novice to study. He may really start studying in real life if he wants to become a ritual expert. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁酉年九月立披. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1777 / 18...
External cover title and title of the first text: 伸斗按龍解冤救患秘語一本 [shendou anlong jieyuan jiuhuan miyu yiben ]. Compilation of three texts: An long, Shen dou and Jie yuan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Shen dou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their f...