ISBN-10: 1622753941
ISBN-13: 9781622753949
This authoritative quantity examines the 2 major faiths, Confucianism and Daoism, that constructed prior to China had significant touch with the remainder of the realm. facets of Buddhism later joined good points of those faiths to shape components of chinese language ideology and, with the ideals in immortals and the worship of ancestors, they resulted in a favored faith. The narrative describes the gods and goddesses that ruled China's mythology and folks tradition, approximately from the third millennium to 221 BCE, together with the Baxian (Eight Immortals), Chang'e (moon goddess), Guandi (god of war), the lads Shen (door spirits), and Pan Gu (first man).
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Black God represents fire-making and the control of fire and is also portrayed as the creator of stars and constellations. In one version of the Navajo (Dineh) creation account, Black God was carefully placing stars in the sky in meaningful arrangements when Coyote became impatient with the slow process. Coyote snatched up the bag from which Black God was taking the stars (or the blanket on which he had placed them) and tossed the remaining stars into the sky. This explains both the random placement of most stars and the origin of the Milky Way.
This story explains why flint is so common in some parts of the country. Chulyen╇ Tanaina╅ Crow, a trickster who was able to change himself into any type of creature, including a handsome young man. In one tale, Chulyen arrived in a village that was cold and dark because a wealthy man had stolen the Sun and the Moon. Through trickery, Chulyen stole them back and returned them to the village. Cinauau╇ Ute╅ Creator brothers who determined the conditions under which the Ute would live. The younger brother wanted food for the people to be abundant and the dead to come back to life the morning after they died.
A Kiowa legend says that seven sisters and their brother were playing one day when the boy changed into a ferocious bear. To save themselves, the girls climbed into a tree that grew taller and taller until it carried them into the sky, where they became the Dipper’s stars. In a variation of this tale, the girls climbed onto a tree stump that grew into a tower of rock, Devil’s Tower. In a similar Blackfeet Nation story, the Dipper’s seven stars are seven brothers who were chased into the sky by a bear.
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