Chapter 9 3. Frog Goddess

Reproductive worship is a masterpiece of Nuwa. This is actually forced out.Primitives had a very short lifespan. The average Neanderthal was less than 20 years old, and none of the cavemen lived past 30.Since people don't live long and die quickly, they can only live more.After all, the only thing that can fight against high death rate is high birth rate.Therefore, Nuwa had to work tirelessly to mass-produce human beings, even at the expense of throwing rattan sticks with mud.In the fight against the god of death, this is the most practical move. Yes, if we can't fight wolves, tigers and leopards, can't we learn from rabbits?

However, it is not easy to have more children.Everyone knows that not every sexual intercourse has a result, and it is all luck to have a boy or a girl.It seems that there is another mysterious force in the dark, which controls and controls the hit rate.For such a power, how could he not respect and pay homage, and how could he not try to get it on himself? The purpose of worship is to obtain, and the method of obtaining is witchcraft.The law of witchcraft is the law of similarity and contact. For example, acting boldly is called "eating the gall of a leopard", and keeping a low profile is called "tipping the dog's tail".This literary rhetoric is actually a relic of witchcraft.You know, warriors in the primitive era really wanted to eat the gall of a leopard.

Access to mystical reproductive powers, too. As a result, Nuwa and her many sisters were created like mushrooms after rain all over the world.It's a straight-up worship of female reproductive capacity, and it's a pragmatic one.Therefore, the protruding abdomen is their pride, the full breasts are their medals, the frogs in the lotus pond are their "Ode to Joy", and the fish in the water are their thousands of incarnations. Here are some haunting images.They are either realistic, freehand, abstract, or simplified (simplified and deformed), forming a sequence, which is magnificent.In particular, the fish pattern of Banpo and the frog pattern of Majiayao have both form and spirit, full of vigor and vitality.Look at the majestic momentum of the rows of parallel fish; look at the graceful and calm posture of the young frogs paddling in the water.Yes, whenever we stare at these ancient mysterious patterns, we are greeted with a breath of life.

Yours sincerely!You cultural symbols of reproductive worship, you ribbons and badges of Nuwa. But why Talia? Because they look alike and grow more.Fish and frogs can indeed give too many associations to young human beings.Don't fish lips and labia open and close?Aren't frogs and pregnant women both potbellied?If you don’t believe me, go to see the double fish pattern in the first phase of Jiangzhai, it is simply a physiological anatomy diagram of female genitalia.

What's more, there are so many roe!Frogs also swarmed with tadpoles after a night of spring rain.Doesn't this mean exuberant vitality?Therefore, the frog pattern of Miaodigou specially draws many dots on the abdomen; the frog pattern of Majiayao also specially draws the opening of the birth canal. In fact, everything from tadpoles to larvae to formed frogs can be found in faience.This is of course no accident.

There are frogs and fish, and the gongs and drums are in harmony.No wonder there are two pairs of double fishes and frogs painted on the inner wall of the pottery basin in the first phase of Jiangzhai.This is a whole set of "female reproductive system".Mastering this system, we can knock on the door of life and drive straight in like the Carthaginian commander Hannibal visited Rome.

Those who have no way out on the death line can survive from a desperate situation. Perhaps, this is the mystery of Nuwa's life experience - Nuwa is a female frog, the frog goddess in charge of fertility, and the goddess of victory who leads us to face death.Her old man is a frog, and our children are babies.The baby fell to the ground and croaked, so under the moonlight in the lotus pond, there was a symphony of life. Death, did you hear that?

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