Wind chime Japanese glass wind bells known as "fūrin" () have been produced since the Edo period, and those at Mizusawa Station are one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan. Wind chimes are thought to be good luck in parts of Asia and are used in Feng Shui. Wind chimes started to become modernized around 1100 B.C. after the Chinese began to cast bells. A bell without a clapper, called a "yong-zhong", was crafted by skilled metal artisans and primarily used in religious ceremonies. Afterwards, the Chinese created the "feng-ling", which is similar to today's modern wind bell. Feng-lings were hung from
Let there be light upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, and it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.</poem> In the Torah, the phrase in which is typically translated in English as "let there be light" is in Hebrew ("vayo'mer 'Elohim, yehi 'or vayehi 'or"). In the Koine Greek Septuagint the phrase is translated "" — "kaì eîpen ho Theós genēthḗtō phôs kaì egéneto phôs". "Γενηθήτω" is the imperative form of "γίγνομαι", "to come into being". The original Latinization of the Greek translation used in