The Night of the Gods; An Inquiry Into Cosmic And Cosmogonic Mythology And Symbolism
The Night of the Gods; An Inquiry Into Cosmic And Cosmogonic Mythology And Symbolism
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Digitized by Google Afy^/^s.l The Four Living Creatures. 187 was called the house of the blue Dragon, t'sang lung ; the* N.
that of the black Warrior, hiuen wu ; the W. that of the white Tiger, p6 hu ; and the S. the house of the red Bird, chu niao.^ This also seems to me to be the simplest authentic form of the imputation of animal and human forms and names to divisions of the skies.
It is noteworthy too that the 4 animals reappear in Chinese myth as the 4 Ling, f| " supernaturally or spi...ritually endowed creatures,' which are (i) the Tortoise (the more ancient title of the Dark Warrior constellation) ; (2) the Lin, which is more familiarly known to us as the K'i-lin, and has the body of a deer, the tail of an ox, and a single horn ; (3) the F^ng, generally translated phcenix, which has a pheasant's head, a swallow's beak, a tortoise's neck, and yet the outward semblance of a dragon with the tail of a fish ; and (4) the fourth creature is the Dragon itself, as before.
A Chinese collective name for the 4 celestial animals is the 4 Kung ^ quadrants, or divisions into sevens (as above) of their 28 great astronon^ic constellations.
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359.
Digitized by Google Afy^/^s.l The Four Living Creatures. 187 was called the house of the blue Dragon, t'sang lung ; the* N.
that of the black Warrior, hiuen wu ; the W. that of the white Tiger, p6 hu ; and the S. the house of the red Bird, chu niao.^ This also seems to me to be the simplest authentic form of the imputation of animal and human forms and names to divisions of the skies.
It is noteworthy too that the 4 animals reappear in Chinese myth as the 4 Ling, f| " supernaturally or spi...ritually endowed creatures,' which are (i) the Tortoise (the more ancient title of the Dark Warrior constellation) ; (2) the Lin, which is more familiarly known to us as the K'i-lin, and has the body of a deer, the tail of an ox, and a single horn ; (3) the F^ng, generally translated phcenix, which has a pheasant's head, a swallow's beak, a tortoise's neck, and yet the outward semblance of a dragon with the tail of a fish ; and (4) the fourth creature is the Dragon itself, as before.
A Chinese collective name for the 4 celestial animals is the 4 Kung ^ quadrants, or divisions into sevens (as above) of their 28 great astronon^ic constellations.
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