¹After the Chiseong of April 8, Taemonim announced, “This year’s lack of rain will surely cause a terrible drought, so farming will be impossible unless I provide rain.”²With this, She ordered the disciples, “Fetch pungmul instruments!” and had them perform a gut, declaring, “We need a head farmer to sing ‘Farmer’s Song.’” Even as She said this, Gahng Hwi-man walked through the gate.³She wrapped a cloth around his head and commanded him to chant the Sicheonjuju Mantra three times. As Hwi-man chanted the mantra, he suddenly received the inspiration of the spirits and began to sing “Farmer’s Song.”

⁴“Farmers must be drenched with rain,” Taemonim said, then She splashed water over Hwi-man and the others, soaking them.

⁵Before sending everyone home, She warned them, “Go dam the irrigation ditches in your rice fields. If you fail to take advantage of the coming rainfall to transplant the seedlings, your rice fields will lie fallow.”⁶Everyone hurried to their fields and dammed up their irrigation ditches. Heavy rain fell the very next day, allowing everyone to transplant their seedlings.

⁷Thereafter, Taemonim conducted a work of renewal for rain at every severe dry spell. By July, She had done so seven times.