The legends are derived from the muramura. The legends of the local heathen are nothing more than the history or biography of the individual muramura from [the time of] their genesis to the day they die. Therein is accurately, minutely, and extensively recorded the origin of each muramura out of the earth, together with [the story of] his wives, servants, [ceremonial] decorations, his wanderings, his invocatory songs to the deity, his achievements (deeds), his troubles, his speeches, his virtues, his shortcomings, and his death. In the telling of a legend by various heathen men about their own muramura, one can detect the same [flow of] words and the same [style of] hand and body movements [as those of their ancestor]. [Each] one endeavours to imitate his muramura.