Chapter 20 2. Witness Dionysus

It is not surprising that Dionysus is a vine, but it is meaningful that he is a goat and a bull.In both Chinese and Western cultures, sheep and cattle are regarded as animals with strong reproductive ability.Bullwhip and the Chinese herbal medicine Epimedium are Viagra in ancient China.In ancient Greece, Pan, the god of shepherd and god of the forest with goat horns, a sheep's tail and two lamb's legs, was even more sexual.No wonder the most important sacrifices in ancient China were sheep and cattle.The use of cattle and sheep as sacrifices not only ensures food, but also guarantees reproduction. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone and kill two birds with one stone.

The bull image of Dionysus probably has this meaning.It may not mean that the Dionysian sacrifice held in his honor will be accompanied by a chorus of goatmen and centaurs.In the paintings of ancient Greece, those guys have a strong penis, which is enough to explain the problem. In short, cattle and sheep, as well as horses, are also symbols of male reproductive worship. But what does this have to do with snakes? Of course it matters.Because the god of wine was born by Zeus who turned into a snake and had an affair with Persephone.This is actually the king of the gods wanting to separate his reproductive power and become a god alone.Therefore, the idol of Di Ye is carved from fig wood, which symbolizes sexual love.Because of this, when Xiao Di was born, he had horns on his head.

In ancient Greece, horns were also a symbol of male genitalia.So, inevitably, Dionysus had to become a goat and a bull.Turning into a goat is said to have been done by his father Zeus to escape the wrath of Hera.On the surface, Hera was furious because Zeus not only had an affair, but also made a "wild species".In fact, what she wants to defend is power.In other words, even in ancient Greece, reproductive worship was originally a female patent.How could the Empress not be furious now that there is someone who is robbing the class and seizing power?Jealousy comes second. However, since reproductive worship must extend from females to males, then male gods responsible for reproductive and sexual love will definitely be born, and no one can stop them.As a result, Dionysus turned not only into a goat, but also into a bull.His image is human, but he is dressed in cowhide, with a cow's head and horns, and a cow's hooves hanging down his back, just like our Yandi.

Zeus turned into a snake and gave birth to Dionysus, a goat or a bull. It can be seen that snakes can become sheep, and sheep can become cattle.Snake gods, sheep people, and bull ghosts beat drums to pass flowers like this. But this process is a bit longer in China. The trouble is that the snake gods, sheep people, and bull ghosts not only represent three stages here, but also three regions and three ethnic groups: the snake gods are the Yi people in the east or the barbarians in the south, and the sheep people are the Qiang people in the west. The bull ghost is the Yandi clan who came to the Central Plains.Although Emperor Yan is also a branch of the Qiang nationality, he cannot be equated with the original Qiang nationality.This is just as the Greeks are a branch of the Aryans, but the Greeks are not equal to the Aryans.

What's more, we don't know who the representative of the Qiang people is.But it is certain that from Fuxi, the snake god, to Yandi, the bull ghost, there must have been the sheep people of the Qiang nationality. He is an unsung hero. In fact, Qiang is the sheepman, that is, the shepherd; Jiang is the sheepwoman, that is, the shepherdess.Qiang's oracle bone inscriptions show two horns on top and a person standing sideways on the bottom.Since he is not a big person standing in front of him, of course his name is unknown, or he can only keep his name incognito.Therefore, he is not Mei, but Qiang.

Ginger has two ram horns on the top and a pregnant woman on the bottom.But it's not beauty either, it's ginger.Ginger is "born of a sheep girl".The mother's surname is Jiang, and the child's surname is also Jiang.Ginger is the baby sheep of the mother sheep. (The note on page 741 of the ninth volume of "Gu Wen Lin" says: Ginger and Qiang are common, and the three gingers are the three Qiangs.) In fact, even the "surname" is "born of a woman".so,.In other words, the surname is the maternal line; the family name is the paternal line.The clan society should be called "surname clan society", and Emperor Yan should also come from the Jiang clan.

So, how did the Jiang people become the Qiang people? Because the world has been turned upside down, the world has changed.Ever since Nuwa changed from a frog to a snake, history has been rewritten, and even turned black and white, beyond recognition.

---

Notes: .