Modern scholars believe that it was not a temporary book and the author is not alone. It is an ancient Chinese legendary classic. 14 volumes are works during the Warring States Period and 4 volumes are works in the early Western Han Dynasty. "Shan Hai Jing" has a total of 18 volumes, including 5 volumes of "Shan Jing" and 13 volumes of "Hai Jing". The original books were done and I stick with that.Ģ17-Classic of Mountains and Seas-Guo Pu-Methodology-475BC Sure there is a chapter on notes on chinese terms and names, but I had enough of lists. I didn´t go through all of the book´s content. considering names like mount dragonbutt, this might have been the case. To give an example: If these people have children (without bones mind you), why are they called the progenyless folk? How does this, or many other names in this book, make any sense? Did the author/s just want to be funny. And I also feel like several of deities mentioned here were mentioned before already in different places.Īnd many of the animal and place names in this book make no sense. This stuff beyond the sea is even weirder than what came before. And the country of women is named so because its only two inhabitants are women. It took this book until the chapters of things beyond the seas to describe people and it starts weirdly by describing people with holes in their chest. And I must say: Ancient egypt, ancient china, modern europe, what is it with people giving snakes wings? The gods in these book are all either quite animalistic, anthropomorphic or straight up unreal. Those particular critters just look spooky mostly. At least these destruction critters aren't the ones that you are supposed to eat to get better or be protected or be sexually attractive. Sure there are those that bring good things, but not many. And with all these crazy critters running around and being omens or something of destruction, it sounds like a shitty place to live. They put fantasy and horror games to shame. A fox with nine-tails and heads is one of the more conservative special critters here. And when it is stated that the river called Tailbanner apparently "contains numerous quick-horses they have an ox's tail, a white body, and a single horn", that sounds like the river is full of unicorns. And if this book describes a porcupine to look "like a hog but it has white hair that is as long as a large hairpin and black at the tip" who knows what sort of mundane animals hide behind the other descriptions. Mountain deities with a dragon body and a bird´s head are just different from the humanoid gods from East Asia that I´m used to. I believe that this book had more than one author over a long time, because the world it describes is all over the place and sometimes I wondered whether the writers just had fun with what they wrote here. I hate long introductions, especially when they are pointless and not even part of the original text.
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