She prayed and prayed. She just prayed before the altar in the small hours before dawn. Taking a bath and offering a bowl of the fresh water she had drawn at the earliest hour before all the others in the new day. Boolim prayed that her hersband Don might keep safe and sound in the deep pits of a Japanese coal mine
"The alter" was not particularly built . Any elated place, on which a doenjangdok, or a big jar containing soybean paste was placed, would do. No psalms, nor mantras, nor prayer books were available to her. She used to just kneel in the direction of the Big Dipper(북두칠성) and prayed to the sky for her husband's good luck
- A Civilized Report by Jungcook Park , 16p -
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