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	Encyclopedia: 1867 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Emperor KÅmei of Japan Emperor KÅmei (åæ˜Žå¤©çš‡) (July 22, 1831 - January 30, 1867) was the 121st imperial ruler of Japan.
		Emperor Mutsuhito Mutsuhito or Mitsuhito (睦仁), the Meiji Emperor (明治天皇, literally wise ruling heaven emperor) (3 November 1852–30 July 1912) was the 122nd Emperor of Japan.
		Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito) Mutsuhito (ç¦ä»), the Meiji Emperor (æ˜Žæ²»å¤©çš‡, literally Enlightened Rule Emperor) (3 November 1852â€“30 July 1912) was the 122nd Emperor of Japan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1867 (6668 words)

	Jade Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		She decided to visit her father back in Heaven, but once she returned, the Jade Emperor summoned a river to flow across the sky (the Milky Way), which Zhi'nü was unable to cross to return to her husband.
		However, the Emperor took pity on the young lovers, and so once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, he allows them to meet on a bridge over the river.
		The Emperor's advisor sent invitations to the rat, the cat, the ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the ram, the monkey, the chicken, and the dog.
	www.peacelink.de /index.php?title=Emperor_of_Heaven&redirect=no (1469 words)

	Temple of Heaven - a historical introduction with photograph
		This is where the Emperor came every winter solstice to worship heaven and to solemnly pray for a good harvest.
		Since Imperial rule was legitimized by the"Mandate Of Heaven", a bad harvest could be interpreted as his fall from heaven's favor and threaten the stability of his reign.
		The design of the Temple of Heaven complex, true to its sacred purpose, refers to the mystical cosmological laws believed to be central to the workings of the universe.
	www.imperialtours.net /temple_of_heaven.htm (481 words)

	Articles - Emperor of China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Unlike the Emperor of Japan, Chinese political theory (See Mandate of Heaven) allowed for a change in dynasty and an emperor could be replaced by a rebel leader.
		As the Emperor has, by law, a high position challenged by no one else, his subjects are to show the utmost respect in his presence, whether it includes direct conversation or otherwise.
		It is taboo to refer to the Emperor by his given name, even if it is from his own mother, who uses Huangdi (Emperor), or "Er" (simply "son").
	www.gaple.com /articles/Emperor_of_China (1219 words)

	The American Experience \| MacArthur \| People & Events \| Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989)
		And the cultural barriers may be even more formidable than the factual ones: to many of his subjects, the "emperor of heaven" was not really a man at all, but the living embodiment of the Japanese people.
		In the decades after the war, the accepted version of events held that Hirohito was essentially a pawn of the militarists who gained control of the government shortly after he took the throne.
		On August 15, 1945, the Japanese people heard the voice of their emperor for the first time, and while he avoided using the word "surrender," his meaning was clear.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/macarthur/peopleevents/pandeAMEX97.html (589 words)

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		Taishaku-ten, then a general serving the emperor of Heaven, was driven to revolt by his thirst for power.
		Only Shashi, wife to the Emperor, survived; She was a priestess in the human world.
		Elder : We cannot be in disagreement with the Emperor of Heaven.
	www.aestheticism.com /Visitors/Manga/RG/rg1script.txt (6009 words)

	temple_of_heaven
		This is where emperors come and worhip the heaven.
		This is a shot taken from the first gate of Temple of Heaven, which is set on a hill.
		This is the main temple in Temple of Heaven where emperor pray to the heaven.
	www.geocities.com /lilchilpepr/temple_of_heaven.html (98 words)

	Nintoku: The Wealth of the Emperor
		The key idea in Confucian political theory is that the emperor's principle role is to guarantee the welfare of the people.
		Heaven desires humans to be prosperous; in order to bring this about, Heaven appoints the Emperor to administer government in such a way to guarantee prosperity.
		For the space of three autumns the people had plenty and the praises of the emperor's virtue filled the land, and the smoke of cooking was also thick.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCJAPAN/NINTOKU.HTM (589 words)

	Shanghai WebSite - Travel in China
		Since his rule was legitimised by a mandate from heaven, a bad harvest could be interpreted as his fall from heaven's favour and threaten the stability of his reign.
		For according to the Confucian pattern of social organisation, just as the Emperor respected his ancestors, so a younger brother should respect an elder brother, a wife her husband, a son his father, and a nation's subjects their ruler.
		The design of the Temple of Heaven complex, true to its sacred purpose, reflects the mystical cosmological laws believed to be central to the workings of the universe.
	www.shanghai.ws /TIClook11005.html (473 words)

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		She was so occupied with her occupation, making garments for the offspring of the Emperor of Heaven, that she had no leisure time to take care of herself, or to weave garments for herself.
		However, God, the Emperor of Heaven took care of her loneliness and married her off to the Aquila, a herdsman who dwelt on the opposite side of the Celestial River, or the Milky Way.
		This angered the Emperor of the Heavens, who separated them by a river, the Milky Way, where on only one night each year, July 7th, a magical bridge is formed on the wings of Magpies and the two are allowed to cross and be together.
	www.barkley.org /whistle/BC_BM_04_Source.doc (3881 words)

	Elephant Trunk Hill, Guilin, Regent Tour China
		Legend says that an elephant which belonged to the Emperor of Heaven came down to earth to help the people in their work.
		This angered the Emperor of Heaven, who stabbed the elephant as it was drinking at the river's edge and turned it to stone.
		The cave between the body and the trunk of this elephant figure is of a particularly interesting shape and has inspired poets and other writers, old and new, to engrave verses on its walls.
	www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/kwl/guilin-sights-elephant.htm (170 words)

	Hellenistic Astrology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Immortal souls dwell in the rim of the heavens among the stars.
		The heavens down to the Moon comprise a world of unchanging harmony that governs the sublunary realm of all changing and corruptible activity.
		The idea that stars are causes is not original with Ptolemy, being an acceptable idea to Peripatetic thinkers cued by Aristotle's eternal circular motions of the heavens as the cause of perpetual generation (On Generation and Corruption (336b15 ff).
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/astr-hel.htm (19004 words)

	Houyi & Chang'er
		The immortals in heaven were moved by the people’s suffering.
		Finally, Hou Yi and his wife were banished forever from heaven and forced to live by hunting on earth.
		Zhong Kui, appearing in a dream to a Tang dynasty emperor, claimed that his mission in life was to destroy all the evils that plagued human beings.
	www.shme.com /culture/legend/houyi.htm (664 words)

	The Quest For Knowledge
		The Jade Emperor Of Heaven decreed that I would be a fit companion for all the animal inhabitants of the mountain and made me King over the monkeys.
		Fearing my new found strength, I was summoned by the Jade Emperor Of Heaven and was asked to be the chief groom of the Celestial Stables.
		Displeased by my rank, I rebelled against heaven and declared myself to be the Great Sage and Equal of Heaven.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/2195/page26.html (344 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aristotle
		The First Heaven, which plays so important a part in Aristotle's general cosmogonic system, is the heaven of the fixed stars.
		It surrounds all the other spheres and, being endowed with intelligence, it turned toward the Deity, drawn, as it were, by His Desirability, and it thus imparted to all the other heavenly bodies the circular motion which is natural to them.
		In the first century B.C. Andronicus of Rhodes edited Aristotle's works, and thereafter the school produced the most famous of its commentators, Aristocles of Messene and Alexander of Aphrodisias (about A.D. In the third century the work of commentating was continued by the Neo-Platonic and Eclectic philosophers, the most famous of whom was Porphyry.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01713a.htm (5735 words)

	Extras ~ Monkey ~ More About the Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Though the Jade Emperor is ruler of Heaven and Earth, he is not so much a supreme God as a supreme administrator.
		The Chinese folk Heaven, drawn mainly from Taoist mythology, is modeled closely on the government of the Chinese emperors.
		Elsewhere she is often known as the Queen Mother of the West, wife of the Lord King of the East and ruler of Mount Kunlun, home of the Taoist Immortals.
	www.aaronshep.com /extras/Monkey_note2.html (2316 words)

	Huangdi (Yellow Emperor): History of China
		Because his tribe honored the virtue of earth, he was given the title, Yellow Emperor, after the yellow color of earth, the symbol of farming.
		The story goes that when Huangdi was 110 years old, a yellow dragon appears in the sky, summoning the emperor to heaven on behalf of the king of heaven.
		When the emperor riding on the back of the dragon is about to leave, his subjects who were reluctant to let him go, drag him back by his clothes.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/prehistoric/huangdi.htm (418 words)

	DOUBLE SEVENTH FESTIVAL
		Legend has it that to the east of the Milky Way lived the Weaving Girl, daughter of the Emperor of Heaven.
		The Emperor of Heaven became infuriated at this and forced the Weaving Girl to return to heaven.
		The Emperor of Heaven was moved by their love and permitted the two lovers to meet once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month, when magpies formed a bridge across the Milky Way.
	www.nychinatown.com /double_seventh_festival.htm (487 words)

	Anime News Network - RG Veda (manga)
		Plot Summary: Three hundred years ago, Taishaku-Ten the god of Thunder rebelled against Tentai, the emperor of Heaven.
		Both Tentai and his strongest warrior, Ashura the god of War, were killed, but not before Kuyo, the emperor's seer, could predict that six stars would eventually appear and set Heaven aflame.
		It's the fateful encounter, set in present time, of Yasha, one of Taishaku-Ten's warriors, with the last scion of the Ashura clan, who has been sealed since the war, which will set the prophecy in motion...
	www.animenewsnetwork.com /encyclopedia/manga.php?id=2673 (171 words)

	Chinese Valentine's Day - Chinese Culture
		As the story goes, an honest oxherder had been so kind to his ox that the creature told him of a secret pond where the beautiful daughters of the Emperor of Heaven bathed.
		As it happened, the girl happened to be the seventh, youngest and most beautiful, daughter of the Emperor of Heaven.
		When the Emperor of Heaven found out, he was angered and ordered his daughter be brought back.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art28660.asp (725 words)

	Chinese Opera Mask, Hou Yi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Soon the archer sensed aloofness and a lack of confidence in the Emperor's attitude.
		Hou Yi, sorry that his wife had to lead a mortal's life for his sake, obtained an elixir of immortality from Xiwangmu the Queen Mother of the West.
		Chang'er, however, resented her new hard life, and while Hou Yi was away from home she swallowed all the elixir and flew to the moon.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Opera/opera-01-02.html (274 words)

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		At the dawn of this world, everything in the universe was ruled by the gods.
		Taishaku-ten, then a general serving the emperor of Heaven, was driven to revolt by his thirst for power.After beheading the emperor, he proudly exposed his head to the people.
		There is one who shalt descent to the house of Darkness, One who shalt govern the orbit of the stars.
	www.angelfire.com /oh/kdlady/rgveda.html (472 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Toad Is the Uncle of Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Emperor of Heaven remedies the drought with rain, calling Toad "Uncle," a title of great respect and affection in Vietnam.
		Every time that the people received rain, they remember the story about the toad which had said to be the uncle of heaven.
		This is when Toad step in and make up his mind to go to heaven and asked heaven the reason why...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0805011463 (367 words)

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		After the universe was created, then came the Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of Earth, and the Emperor of Mankind.
		Watch the tragedies that evolve from impetuous decisions, and see how they affect Jade Emperor, his sons and the mighty archer Yi.
		Passion of a mere mortal for the Jade Princess, sister of Jade Emperor, their illicit marriage and son MuLian, lead to action by Jade Emperor.
	www.scanews.com /spot/2002/may/s611/english-news/programs.txt (1117 words)

	Jumpmasters 1A: (Buying) a Stairway to Heaven - C3C 1.22, Emperor - Civilization Fanatics' Forums
		Jumpmasters 1A: (Buying) a Stairway to Heaven - C3C 1.22, Emperor - Civilization Fanatics' Forums
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		Civilization Fanatics' Forums > CIVILIZATION III > Civ3 - Stories and Tales > Civ3 - Succession Games > Jumpmasters 1A: (Buying) a Stairway to Heaven - C3C 1.22, Emperor
	forums.civfanatics.com /showthread.php?t=92618 (1422 words)

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