miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
having no choice; at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
kind; sort; type; similar example; parallel; the like
bizarre murder; grotesque murder
festival; feast; carnival
river; stream; River; the ... river
vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
entrails; giblets; tripe; offal
to turn; to shift; to alter; to distract
cannibalism; biting (someone); man-eating (e.g. tiger); cannibalistic
internal organs; intestines; viscera
old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence
to have meaning; to be meaningful
arbitrator; mediator; go-between
descent (to earth, esp. of a god); advent; epiphany; arrival (of an important person); appearance
emperor; living god; god incarnate; miracle-working god (who appears as the occasion demands)
making a surgical incision in the abdomen
regarding; in; to; towards; with regards to
blasphemy; curse; profanity; sacrilege; desecration
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means
artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made
well-versed (in); profoundly knowledgeable (about); high in the attainment (of)
noxious gas; poisonous gas; toxic fumes
origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature
depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)
to be tied together; to be connected to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)
plausible (but untrue); credible (e.g. of a lie); specious; truthy
to hand down (a story, legend, etc.); to pass on (to the next generation); to spread (a rumor, news, etc.); to circulate; to send word; to pass on (a message)
to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one; to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
to be overproduced; to be incredibly good (e.g. for a child); to go much better than expected; to be too good to be true (of a story, etc.)
won't (hasn't, isn't, doesn't, etc.); won't you
handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission
the cauldron of Hell (in which sinners are boiled)
miasma; noxious form of "bad air" formerly believed to cause diseases
to begin to overflow; to start overflowing; to pour out
all; completely; totally; entirely; thoroughly
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...