Chapter 785: Hunting the Sun
There are several key points about the myth of "Dayi", an ancient demigod hero, which are "sun", "drought", and "time".
…… In this story, the celestial activity that began with the ten suns in turn, the Golden Crow, turned into a bad situation where all ten of them appeared.
It was also for this reason that the earth began to fall into a terrible and terrible drought, because the sun was too much and too hot, the mountains and rivers began to burn, and the people of the earth were struggling in the sea of fire and praying for the blessings of God.
The people and animals that were not burned in the fire rushed to the wolves, running in all directions, frantically looking for places to escape the disaster and to save their lives with water and food.
Seeing this tragedy, Yi was very sympathetic in his heart, so he opened his 10,000-pound crossbow, mounted a thousand-pound arrow, aimed at the hot sun in the sky, and swished arrow after arrow, shooting down nine suns in a row, leaving only the only sun still in the sky, continuing to contribute light and heat to the earth and all things.
First of all, this myth boils down to a drought caused by the sun's abnormal state, and "Dayi", as a hero, finally solved the nine suns with a magic arrow, ending this terrible drought.
Most of the characters and backgrounds in the myth have countless information, first of all, the identity of "Dayi", he is a demigod, a hero, and a sharpshooter, but he also has another identity, that is, the mutated sun god.
He killed nine suns with his bow and arrows, and ordered the last sun to stay in the sky, or to interpret it as if he kept one sun, which means that "Dayi" has the power to dominate the sun.
And we can see a little from another myth about "Dayi and Chang'e". Dayi is a mutation of the sun god, and his wife Chang'e's true identity is a mutation of the moon god.
Most people are familiar with the myth of Chang'e, which says that Dayi asked for the medicine of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West on Kunlun Mountain, and asked his wife Chang'e to keep it, and prepared to choose an auspicious day for the couple to eat together.
But then Chang'e ate alone. As for the reason, there are two theories: one is that Chang'e has always been angry with her husband because she can't return to heaven, so she swallowed all the medicine privately; Another theory is that Chang'e's possession of the elixir of immortality was discovered by Yi's bad apprentice Pengmeng, who forced her to hand over the elixir, and Chang'e had no choice but to swallow all the elixir in order to prevent Pengmeng from succeeding.
The myth of the moon often has a great deal to do with the idea of immortality, as Fraser, the author of The Golden Bough, said of this issue: "The Namaqua or associated the phases of the moon with immortality, and they understood the apparent phenomenon of the waxing and waning of the moon as a kind of alternation, the real process of a permanent cycle of aging and growth, and even the moonrise and moonset were interpreted by them as the birth and death of the moon." ”
In Hindu mythology, the concept of stealing the elixir of immortality is wordy. It is very similar to the story of Chang'e being persecuted by Fengmeng.
The Chinese ancestors also believed that the moon could not die, or that it could be resurrected after death. Therefore, we can think of the elixir of immortality as another manifestation of the moon, and after the personification of the moon, the elixir of immortality is in the possession of the moon god. Chang'e is the god of the moon, and it is natural that she has the elixir of immortality, and it is said in the mythological plot that she received the elixir of immortality from her husband Dayi, which may be the result of the mutation of the myth.
"Aside from the sun and drought. There is also the question of time, which is also the factor why Dayi wants to kill the sun. What does it mean that the ten suns do not in themselves cause a drought, that the sun takes turns to carry out the work of a world that is peaceful, and that the equilibrium is broken after time has been broken......
"The most important point is also the death of the sun, as the demigod Dayi killed the golden crow sun. In fact, he himself can dominate the sun, so he is a mutated sun god......"
"However, this demigod who came down from heaven to earth lost the elixir of immortality, and his fate coincided with that of the dead sun......"
These different questions were racing in his mind, and the symbolism of mythology and folklore contributed to the quasi-demonization of Ultimate Kaz. Even if the other party didn't succeed, he did complete part of the demon kingization.
(Conversely, then, I could use symbolism to solve the mystery to defeat him...... )
Flying at the speed of light, Feng Han continued to fly high into the air, and Yu Ji in the form of a sword was transformed into a mechanized bow and crossbow according to his intentions, which was a "prop" used to shoot the sun. …… After all, it was against ten suns, and how could an archer without a magic arrow be effective.
With a wave of his hand, he shot his first arrow at the nine suns in the sky, a divine light attached to a metal arrow made of two materials, the sword and the sacrificial blade, and the current "Seven Star Legacy" itself contained the power of the sixth element of the Elemental Destruction. Yes, the destructive power of the elemental killer.
"Go ahead!"
He let out a low roar, and the light burst through the void with arrows, piercing through the first solar ship, the huge artificial celestial body in the form of light sails shattered in outer space, and the arrows themselves had huge kinetic energy, plus the power of the sixth element against the elements specifically restrained the light energy matrix.
"The world of the ten suns is chaotic, and all the suns must be arranged in chronological order, and illuminated according to the different laws called years, months, and days, which is what the ancients considered a reasonable world......"
The core product of the civilization of the ancients is the emergence of the year, month and day and the calendar, which is the necessary core of all highly developed civilizations, and the invention of the calendar is the establishment of civilization; The giving of the calendar is a symbol of the exercise of rule; Changing the calendar means a change in the relationship between regimes.
Although the calendar serves agricultural production, even the nomadic people have a calendar based on astronomy, not only agricultural production needs to accurately identify the seasons and determine the agricultural time; Even nomadic peoples have to grasp the reasonable changes of the seasons.
The ten suns shrouded the earth for a long time not only caused a drought and a long daylight, but also caused confusion in the calendar and time.
"In Dayi's story, the irregularity of the ten suns disrupts the daily time, which causes significant damage to agriculture...... Secondly, the fault of the sun is not in its numbers, but in the chaotic timing......"
It is not that the Ten Days born in Yuya are wrong, but that the phenomenon of the Ten Days dominating the earth is wrong, and in order to solve this disordered phenomenon, it is necessary to hunt the sun. (To be continued.) )