Chapter 524: Wu Xie's Private Notes · Zongzi and Bug Monster

One, turtle
Corpse turtle is a kind of insect with armor, and it feels like a combination of the dragon lice family and centipede. Unlike dragon lice, their forefoot is particularly sharp and powerful, and they are larger, like dark and afraid of light.
The action of this large bug is very fast, and it is amphibious. It feeds on carrion and small creatures strayed into the water. It often accumulates around floating corpses, gathers in piles, and prey on each other.
I have been attacked by these insects, and I feel that they are unlikely to pose a threat to animals with thick skin, such as rhinos who bathe in the water. But for humans, it is indeed a great threat, because they have the instinct to attack weak parts such as the abdomen, which may cause major bleeding and death.
Corpse turtles often appear in deep mountain rivers or swamps, and may appear in large numbers when torrents or earth and rock flows erupt.
2. Blood Corpse
There are legends of blood corpses in many places. The blood corpse refers to a tomb with a protective layer below the ground. Generally, for example, ancient tombs with fire roof, acid roof, or vermilion roof are red when shoveled out with Luoyang. Especially acid top, if the earth color is like blood, it must contain cinnabar in Dali. The ancient tomb has such a structure, which means that the specifications are very high, so it will be said that the blood corpse is all under the baby.
Why do you think there are blood corpses under the blood corpse?
On the one hand, it may be an erroneous rumor; on the other hand, cinnabar is used as an exorcism. The use of cinnabar in the soil layer of the ancient tomb definitely hopes to block something in the tomb. In this ancient tomb capped, the corpse must be a little changed.
In fact, the blood corpse is not as red as its name, but as purple.
3. Green-eyed fox corpse
The horror and strangeness of this ancient corpse is beyond description. People can actually look like a bald fox, I am afraid that it is not just a deformity. I can't imagine what this ancient corpse looked like before it was decaying and dehydrated.
The fat man said that this was a evil, but from a theoretical perspective, it should be a rare deformity. To be classified, it is a kind of cerebellar disease. The development of the deformity makes the person's face extremely long. It is also possible that, like Inca and Egypt, the splint was used to deform people's faces and heads from an early age. This is a man-made mythical phenomenon. I believe that on the battlefield, when the enemy sees such a monster, he must be deflated.
The main function of the mask is the deity symbol, which basically conforms to the appearance. That is to say, the first part of Lu Lu is a fox totem. It seems that there is only one Tibetan who believes in foxes in history, which is very strange.
Four, Hydra cypress
I can't find any information about this plant, but there are some informal information. Regarding trees that can digest animal tissues, or other large plants, there is a scientific name called: Cannibal Tree, CarnlvorouTrees.
In foreign legends, a tree resembling a Hydra cypress is called an "octopus tree". It can entangle nearby prey and kill and digest it. It is often referred to by locals as "the tree of the devil." The German explorer once analyzed in the investigation diary that the way of attacking animals stems from the instinct of spreading seeds, just as Xanthium sticks to the fur of animals. It's just that this tree is more terrible, it will entangle and kill everything close to it.
I think that if this kind of legendary tree really exists, it might be Hydra. The ecological characteristics of this tree are probably like this: kill animals, attract insects by rotting animals, and spread pollination.
The corpse turtle was attracted by the corpses on the tree and gathered around the snake tree. In fact, snake cypress can't really kill prey, the death of prey is often caused by corpse turtles. This is a very clever symbiotic relationship. At the same time, the feces of the corpse turtles are also excellent nutrients, and are more suitable for the growth of plants than rotten corpses.
This symbiotic relationship also exists among many animals and plants, but here, I think this may be designed by someone. It is like raising fish in rice fields, a kind of wisdom of agricultural society.
Five, the forbidden mother
The legend of the forbidden mother is common among the ethnic minorities in the South, from the Miaoyao tribe in Yunnan to the fishermen in Hainan.
Fishmen in Hainan believe that the forbidden mother represents a symbol of disease and disaster. The image is often a big belly, wet all over, and resembles the large number of floating corpses that appeared on the beach after the tsunami. The accumulation of a large number of dead bodies is easy to cause the epidemic of the plague. So I speculate that the so-called forbidden mother may have been the result of fishermen processing impressions of floating corpses and disasters for thousands of years. People at the time did not understand the relationship between dead bodies, disasters and diseases, so they made up such a monster image.
After we entered the seabed graveyard, we met the monster-wife who was full of hair. It was like a corpse that had been soaked in water for a long time. It made me feel hairy if I saw a lot of hair.
6. Sea Monkey
The legendary creatures often heard in coastal areas are said to have been discovered in Guangxi when one of the reservoirs was cleaned. In Changsha, the sea monkey is called the headless ghost, and in Guilin it is called the water lion ghost.
Differs from other legendary creatures in that its legends are found almost everywhere, which is very intriguing, perhaps due to human fear of the unknown world underwater.
In the mouth of the old man, it exists in almost all places where there is water, including wells and even water tanks.
The details of all the legends are different, but one thing is common, that this kind of thing is humanoid, and has great power in the water.
However, to be honest, the imagination in my mind is far scarier than what I actually saw.
Seven, the human face bird
Almost all civilizations in the world have mentioned human-faced birds. This kind of creature appears in all religions and myths, especially in the history of China and India. This is not because China has been deeply influenced by Buddhism. Careful observation shows that as early as the legend of the Yellow Emperor, there were nine-day mysterious nuns with human faces and birds. Buddhism only began to spread into China between the two Hans, and it did not really develop until the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties. Therefore, the "Miaoyin Bird" in Buddhism, Jialing Pinga, should not be the prototype of the nine-day mythical girl in mythology.
Although there are a lot of records about human-faced birds in the "Shan Hai Jing", it is said that the later volumes are forgeries of later generations, and they are not adopted here.
The earliest surviving human-faced bird image in China, the site of "Red Mountain Culture" at the Maonau Sea Mountain in the hinterland of the Old Hahebei Desert in Inner Mongolia, belongs to the Neolithic Age. Archaeologists consider this to be an ancient tortoiseshell, which is now extinct.
Inner Mongolia is far from the Central Plains, and belongs to the north of the north, relatively close to the northeast. Is it what we saw at the bottom of Changbai Mountain?
In the legend of Dali, human-faced birds have played some roles similar to the "evangelist" communicator, whether it is the Jiutian Xuannv awarded the Yellow Emperor Battle Book, or the Jialing Pinga spreading the wonderful sounds of the Buddha, all with the culture of heaven. Feeling spread to the people of the earth. Strangely, China also has mortal images of human-faced birds, such as the magician Bian Que, which in legend is the human-faced bird body.
Later I discovered that this is actually a confusion of concepts. Bian Que is not actually a specific person. In the Spring and Autumn Period, all famous doctors were called Bian Que. The real famous doctor Bian Que is a figure in the myth of the Xuanyuan era, and belongs to the same line as the Yellow Emperor. I am afraid that it is a creature like the Nine Heavens.
This kind of image is so popular in Chinese mythology, it is difficult not to make people associate. Based on reality, will there be an ancient civilization that we haven't discovered yet, domesticated this human-faced bird, and practiced it to provide great help during wars and transportation?
In tribal warfare, this kind of wanderings appeared frequently. As a force, it might transport a lot of intelligence and medicine, which made other uninformed tribes mistakenly think it was a deity.
This mysterious ancient civilization, although very low-key, or because of its mystic character, makes all the materials left in the world obliterate. The bronze giant gate under Changbai Mountain may be one of the few remains. The human-faced birds they trained also went extinct after the extinction, leaving only a few survivors, and continued to protect the master's final remains underground.
Sounds a little nonsense, but I feel quite reasonable. The use of wolverines to disseminate information also reminds me of the image of a witch in medieval Europe. The witches there all have a pet as a pet, which is quite fun.
Is that behind the giant gate of Qingtong, is the magic world of Hogwarts?
8. Thousand-hand Guanyin Corpse
This is a imaginary body, not only its strange hands like spiders.
I do n’t know if this is a rare deformity, but these hands look very flexible and powerful, at least it will not hinder the quality of life. Of course I can't imagine what it would be like to control so many hands, but obviously, if you live in a ridge and cliff, this deformity can make the action like a fish.
Is this an evolution, or is it an artificial choice?
For example, in the clan of King Wannu, the status is determined by the number of hands behind. People with only two hands are inferior. The larger the number of hands, the more severe the deformity and the higher the status. People in the entire clan hope that their children can be combined with more hands, and those with more hands will get more wives and concubines because of their high status.
This inference is not entirely unreasonable. In African tribes, some indigenous people worship albinism, and albino patients can be treated like gods in the tribe. They strive to obtain a "god" with white skin through intermarriage with albinism patients. Therefore, when they saw the appearance of a white man like God, they succumbed and hardly resisted.