The self of the heavens has billions of clones

Chapter 151

"Zuo Zhuan" says that Taotie is "the untalented son of the Jinyun family", and "Historical Records: The Book of the Five Emperors" says: "Jinyun's family, Jiang's surname, is a descendant of Emperor Yan, and he was an official in Jinyun when he was the Yellow Emperor." Chiyou's surname is Jiang. , is a descendant of Emperor Yan, and it can be inferred that Chi You is probably Jinyun's "untalented son" Taotie.

There is also a legend that Taotie is one of the nine sons of the dragon, but this statement has been questioned by many people, because the son of the dragon, who is an "auspicious beast", has a "vicious beast" mixed in, which is really unreasonable.

The biggest characteristic of gluttony is gluttony, and eventually eats itself (it is also rumored that it is too much to eat).Therefore, later generations also regard gluttony as a symbol of greed. In the movie "The Great Wall", the appearance of gluttony is a calamity sent by heaven to punish the greedy King Zhou. There is a war between humans and beasts every 60 years, which lasted for 2000 years until Northern Song Dynasty.

Interpretation of Wang Aijun's Collected Works "Glutton": Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals: "Zhou Ding wrote gluttony, with a head but no body, cannibalism without swallowing, and harm to the body." It has been passed down from generation to generation. The mouth decoration is called Taotie.Whether or not this kind of ornamentation was also called Taotie in the Yin and Shang Dynasties is unclear.The Shang and Zhou cultures since the beginning of history have made great progress. The Taotie patterns on bronze wares are not random embellishments, and should have their deep meaning; moreover, there are more Taotie patterns on ritual instruments. The double wishes of blessing and blessing.

The Taotie pattern is mainly composed of the face facing the beast, and the left and right are symmetrical; for the best symmetry, there is also one on the left and one on the left when the body is worn.The face is a natural and symmetrical figure, and any nation has a deep impression on the faces of animals and humans.Because the face is a silent language, not only the expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy are displayed on the face, but also the solemn, mighty, benevolent, vicious, sinister, and mysterious attitudes are also displayed on the face.

The Taotie pattern uses "strange things in mountains and rivers" as the theme, but these strange things are so vague and elusive.Ancient craftsmen, unlike the painters in the prosperous civilization, had the ingenious means of stealing "good pictures of ghosts and ghosts, but evil dogs and horses". The manuscripts they adopted at the beginning were all faithful to realism, and gradually simplified from realism; Most of the images in this book are derived from common things such as birds and beasts, or from human beings.The Taotie pattern is the main pattern on the face, the feet, body, and tail are the secondary patterns, and the thunder pattern is the ground pattern.The complete main pattern is composed of crown decoration, nose, eyes, eyebrows, horns, ears, mouth, teeth and other functions.

Logically speaking, Taotie actually committed too many sins, coupled with his insatiable greed and insatiable appetite, which made him one of the four evil beasts.

As for the others who are stronger than Taotie, it's not 01:30.

But that's not important, it's important.

Not only that, other mysterious existences also appeared one after another.

For example, the three-headed hellhound, at the beginning people just regarded her as a mutant dog.

Many self-righteous high-class figures want to keep him as a pet.

But it's something anyone can afford.

He called himself Cerberus.

Cerberus (Cerberus) is the descendant of Echidna (see Echinda) and Typhon (see Typhon), the watchdog of hell in Greek mythology.According to tradition, Cerberus was born to Typhon, the ancestor of all monsters, and Echidna, the snake-body monster.The appearance of this monster is fierce and terrible: it has many heads, and it also has a snake's tail, and a poisonous snake is coiled around its neck.

After Hercules brought the dog from the underworld to the earth, it spewed venom from its mouth while barking, and the place where the venom fell gave birth to aconite (Ovid described in "Metamorphosis", Medea made poison from the sap of the aconite).

Cerberus lived on the banks of the River Styx (in Greek mythology, the dead had to cross the River Styx in a boat rowed by Charon before entering the underworld), and guarded the gate of the underworld for Hades, the king of the underworld.Cerberus allows the souls of every dead person to enter the underworld, but does not let anyone out (and neither does the living).Therefore, in Greek mythology and Roman mythology, only a few people survived from the underworld.These include:
Orpheus, one of the heroes of the Argonauts, entered the underworld in order to bring his dead wife Eurydice back from the underworld. out of the underworld;
When the Trojan hero Aeneas went to the underworld to know his own destiny, Sibylla of Cymae (a prophetess) induced Cerberus to eat a cake containing hypnotic herb and made him fall into a coma (Virgil, "Ephesia"). "Neaz");
But the most famous is Hercules, who took Cerberus out of the underworld by the order of Eurystheus, and later released him by the order of Eurystheus.Capturing Cerberus alive was one of Hercules' twelve feats.

In addition, Hermes, one of the twelve main gods of Olympus, used the water of the Styx to make Cerberus fall asleep; in a famous story about Eros, Eros' lover, Psyche also used Cerberus was put to sleep by the hypnotic cake (Apuleius, The Golden Donkey).

The three-headed dog Cerberus often fights for a piece of food. The last thing Psyche asked the goddess Venus to meet her husband Cupid was to use a piece of bread to transfer the dog. Erberus's attention.

The ancient Greeks had the custom of putting a piece of honey cake in the coffin of the deceased. It is said that it was to please Cerberus. They hoped that the dead man could give this cake to the vicious dog.

During the archaeological excavation of an ancient temple (dedicated to Hades and Persephone) in Cumae, southern Italy, archaeologists discovered that there were iron chains used to tie dogs on the wall next to the entrance of the temple.These dogs may have been used in ancient times to represent Cerberus.

Virgil says Cerberus has three throats, Ovid says its cry is a trio, Butler likens it to a bishop's triple crown (the bishop is the gatekeeper of heaven, Cerberus the gatekeeper of hell dog).In Norse mythology, there is also a group of hell dogs named Garm (Garm). They have four blood-stained eyes and are very cruel. Like Cerberus, they guard the gate to hell.The dog of the god of the underworld of the Roman religion also has four eyes, and the hells of the Roman religion and Buddhism are also full of dogs. They are all torturers of the soul.

Although it is a gluttonous and sleepy dog ​​in name, think about it!

The existence of guarding the gates of the underworld and protecting the order of the underworld all the time is far beyond ordinary gods!

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