Chapter 21 3. Totem poles, stand up
As mentioned earlier, the development of human society is from primitive groups to clans, to tribes, to tribal alliances, and then to countries, that is, from points to planes, to slices, to circles, to countries.Among them, some are on-site expansion, such as Eve's transformation into Nuwa;But whenever the nature changes, the name changes.Therefore, it is possible that the Qiang people and the Qiang people were originally called the Jiang people or the Jiang people.Jiang and Qiang may have originally been the same word.However, in order to make it clear that the matriarchal line has changed to the patrilineal line, the male Qiang must be used to replace the female Jiang, just like the branch that migrated from the west to the Central Plains and entered the tribal era, it must be renamed the Yandi clan.
Fortunately, even Emperor Yan still has the surname Jiang.This is not because of the ginger water, but because of the shepherdess.We have seen her appearance in the movie "Shaolin Temple", and we have also heard of it in Wang Luobin's songs.
Yes, in that distant place, also in that distant age.
That is a beautiful girl, that is a great mother.Her greatness lies in her resolute surrender of management rights for the survival and development of the clan.Only then did the Jiang people become the Qiang people.Emperor Yan, who is a branch of the Qiang ethnic group, was able to change the past and make a new one, changing the emblem of the ethnic group from sheep to cattle.
What's the difference between cows, sheep, and snakes?
The snake is a fertility cult, the ox is a totem cult, and the sheep is a transitional period.
what is?For primitive peoples, the totem is their "country name", "national flag" and "national emblem", their "common ancestor" and their "identity".For example, if a certain ethnic group uses an eagle as a totem, members of the clan will be told from an early age that their ancestor is a condor, and their clan is called the eagle clan, and they are the descendants of that male condor.As the "descendants of the eagle", their chiefs must wear eagle feathers on their heads and their noses look like eagle hooks, and the tribesmen must have eagle tattoos.Eagles are painted on their flags, and a pillar carved with an eagle's head is erected at the entrance of the village, called a "totem pole".Every now and then, during festivals, they would surround the totem pole, play the eagle flute, and dance the eagle dance, just like the Tajiks in Taxkorgan on the Pamirs.
No wonder all kinds of "ghosts and snake gods" will appear on the stage one after another.But the totems of these primitive peoples are not bull-headed and horse-faced, black and white impermanence in the palace of Hades, but some decent people, such as wolves and eagles in ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, horses and wild cats in ancient Rome, bears, pi, pi, Tiger, Shaohao's Fengniao, Xuanniao, Qingniao, Danniao, Panhu of the She and Yao ethnic groups.And of course, there are snakes.It's just that it later became a dragon, no longer a symbol of reproductive worship, but the general totem of a large nation.
The question is, what about totems?
The world has changed from women's to men's.Because no matter how varied the totems of various nations in the world are, and whether they are animals (such as parrots), plants (such as bulbs), or natural phenomena (such as lightning and thunder), they are all male anyway. A male god who is mysteriously pregnant.
This is of course impossible.It is only a man who can make a woman pregnant.Therefore, to create a god as a totem is actually to describe the man as a god, which is the sanctification and mystification of male reproductive function.There is obviously only one purpose in doing so, which is to elevate the status of men.In other words, those who used to be helpers now have to be the boss.For this reason, one must first pretend to be a god and become addicted to being a god.Because of this, when a man has stabilized his country and can be said to be alone, all the totems will withdraw from the stage of history and disappear without a trace.
The role of the totem is self-evident and clear at a glance.
However, since the golden crow appeared in the sun and the snake god appeared on the altar, the status of men has been greatly improved, so why put up the totem pole so high?
It's not exactly greedy and insatiable.The expansion of the ethnic group is probably an important reason.The original group formed purely by nature is very weak, so it is a point.Become a clan and grow stronger, so it is a face.After the clan grows, it divides into separate households and splits into multiple clans.These closely-connected clans, together with the surrounding scattered and scattered, united into a tribe, that is, a piece.
A connected tribe has more people, wider land, busier affairs, and more complicated relationships.Clan members are related by blood, and clan members are also related by marriage.The seven aunts and eight aunts, the father-in-law and the brother-in-law, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, old friends and new friends, of course need cohesion, need a commander-in-chief, and need a pillar.Otherwise, these scattered clans of different sizes cannot be twisted into one rope to develop productivity and deal with wild beasts and enemies.
The totem is necessary, the only question is what; the core is also necessary, the only question is who will be it.
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