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Showing posts with label Mythology. Show all posts
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June 27, 2016

The Crow in East Asian Mythology



The Crow
In East Asian Mythology


JAPAN
  • crow historically cleaned up after great battles
  • symbolising renaissance after tragedy
[Information from Wikipedia, unless otherwise marked]

Three-legged crow
various mythologies
East Asia
inhabit and represent the sun
three-legged crow originated in China
earliest bird-sun motif or totemic:   5000 BC

China, severa versions of crows and crow-sun tales
Yangwu or Jinwu  = the 'golden crow'
 

Sanzuwu
Chinese mythology
3-legged crow
earliest depiction of 3-legged crow:  Neolithic pottery, Yangshao culture

Sanzuwu on 'Twelve Medallions decoration
of formal imperail garments ancient China

Most popular depiction:  'Yangwu'
depiction of a sanzuwu
ie. SUN CROW
commonly called:  Jīnwū (golden crow)
colour red rather than black

Chinese myth:
originally 10 Sun Crows
settled in 10 separate suns
perched on red mulberry tree - called FUSANG (leaning mulberry tree)
mulberry tree had many mouths open on branches
Sun Crows would travel around the world on a carriage
driven by Xihe - mother of the suns
the Sun Crows would take it in turns to travel
one would set forth when the other returned
SHANHAIJING:  the sun crows ate mythical grasses of immortality (diri - 'ground sun')
Sun Crows would descend to feed on immortal grasses
Xihe did not like this & covered their eyes
2170 BC - all 10 Sun Crows came out on the same day
causing the world to burn
Houyi, celestial archer, shot them down
all but one

Shanhaijing
Shan-hai Ching - classic Chinese text (classic of mountains & seas)
written by sorcerers + Fangshi
based on the experiences they gained from their trips
[so it's like an early encyclopaedia]
fang-shi = 'method master'
a Chinese technical specialist
from 3rd Century BC to 5th Century AD
incl:  alchemist, astrologer, diviner, exorcist, doctor, magician, mystic
monk, occulist, etc
'fang' = place, region, formula, prescription, recipe & 'the way'
'shi' = scholar, intelligentsia, gentleman, officer, yeoman, soldier, technician

  • recorded over 100 diplomatically related realms
  • compilation of mythic geography & myth
  • versions since 4th century BC
  • present form not reached to:  Han dynasty (centuries later)
  • geographical & cultural account of pre-Qin China
  • collection of Chinese mythology
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yeoman
Chinese nobility

social system:  Zhou dynasty = Chinese proto-feudalism
ordered by combination of:
1.  honours & awards ('Fengjian')
2.  clan law ('Zongfa')

ranks:

  • nobles – Zhuhou (zhū hóu),
  • gentlemen ministers (of the royal court) – Qing (qīng),
  • gentlemen bureaucrats – Daifu (大夫 dà fū) - incl. physicians
  • yeomen – Shi (士 shì)
  • commoners – Shumin (shù mín)

Zongfa (宗法, clan law) - applied to all social classes
order of birth & succession was of importance
eldest son of consort = inherits title & rank

  • other sons of consort, concubines & mistresses = titles one rank lower than father

Traditional Chinese political theory held that:
"All lands under Heaven belong to the emperor, all people under Heaven belong, are subjects of the emperor."


title of nobility, Ba Wang, hegemon
also used as courtesy title for extended Chinese royal family

Therefore:  foreign monarch subject to Chinese Emperor
referred to as Wang, implying that one was inferior in rank

modern Chinese
king:  Wang
emperor:  Huangdi

Queen Victoria styled:
1.  Nü-Wang (Queen) - Britain'
2.  Nü-Huang (Empress) of India
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Shanhaijing
Shan-hai Ching - classic Chinese text (classic of mountains & seas)
written by sorcerers + Fangshi

[so it's like an early encyclopaedia]
  • 18 sections
  • over 550 mountains
  • 300 channels

descriptions of locations in the cardinal directions
descriptions: medicines, animals, and geological features

includes:   famous ancient Chinese myth:  Yu the Great
who spent years trying to control the deluge


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Japan
raven or 'jungle crow'

is represented in mythology
called:  YATAGARASU
(ie eight-span crow')
evidence of will of Heaven or divine intervention
mentioned in Shinto
depictions on Edo wood art

Japan
crow historically cleaned up after great battles
symbolising renaissance after tragedy


Yatagarasu
crow-god symbol of guidance in travels of Emperor Jimmu
Yatagarasu is incarnation of 'Taketsunimi no mikoto'

"Kamo Taketsunimi no Mikoto, the founder of the Kamo-Agatanushi clan, saved the people by turning into a great crow and thus ending the war. The Kamo Ataganushi, which still exist today in Japan, were called the descendants of that kami.

Yatagarasu is still worshipped today in many Japanese shrines."  source | narutoforums
Otherwise, Yatagarasu appears as 3-legged crow
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Samjok-o
3-legged crow, Korean mythology
symbol of sun
3-legged crow lived in sun
turtle lived in moon
Samjok-o, highly regarded symbol of power
superior to dragon & to bonghwang

Bonghwang - aka Fenghuang
(known as:  the Chinese Phoenix in west)
in ancient China over 8000 years
earliest:  on jade & pottery
good luck totem, possibly
symbol of virtue & grace
symbolises union of yin & yang (opposite forces)
mythological birds of East Asia
rule over all other birds
'Feng' were the male & 'Huang' was the female gender
eventually blurred into single feminine entity
paired with Chinese dragon (male)
known as Adarna in Malay Philippines

China and Japan - Fenghuang
a symbol of imperial house
represented "fire, the sun, justice, obedience, and fidelity"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_crow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenghuang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_nobility#Fengjian_and_Zongfa_of_the_Zhou_Dynasty


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3-legged crow

Yatagarasu

adopted from mythology of China
Japan was heavily influenced by Chinese culture in its early period

In China 3-legged crow is red and associated with sun

The crow was the soul of the sun (mythology first developed southern China to 5000 BC)

Some other Chinese mythology associations that are not clear to me ('child-sun').

Crow Tengu play tricks on evil-doers


http://thejapanchronicles.blogspot.com/2012/02/crows-in-japan-menace-or-guide-of-gods.html

*something is either wrong with the online dictionary, or there's two ways to spell 'occultist'.  I'm going with 'occultist'.

COMMENT

I wanted to know where the Japanese were re the crow (re my recent video editing fun).

Found some cool stuff I didn't know about.  

I've only just sort of skimmed all of this, so I probably don't know a whole lot more.  ;)