Chapter 229: From the Classic of Mountains and Seas
What the three of them said makes sense. Now the ones in front of them are dogs, lions, and Xuanwu. These three are relatively more or less related to the "door".
It can also be said that the images of these three animals are often seen near the door.
Yang Ni raised his arm and felt that he was no longer as he had just now. The unsuccessful "golden body" effect had an added bonus to the recovery of his injury. Now he looked no longer depressed.
No matter which of these three is chosen, you must be as soon as possible. The others are better, but the remaining time for the cookie is already very tight.
Yang Ni himself had an idea, but he didn't say it out. It was not that he had other choices besides these three, but that he vaguely felt that this game was closely related to the word "Buddha".
It is not a monk's fault. There is also a pair of beads/spiders with two souls in the skin. However, looking at the other settings in this game, whether it is the "Glory Temple" or the "Great Happy Heaven", they are all concepts in Buddhism. Even the four-armed corpse with a pair of arms is not difficult to see in various Buddhist murals, because there have always been four-armed Buddha Mother and four-armed Guanyin in Buddhism.
Therefore, Yang Ni felt that this game still needs to find the answer from the word "Buddha".
He pondered for a moment and asked again: "Everyone is right. According to the previous experience of the elephant-headed wild beast, if we choose an animal, a wild beast with a beast head and human body will appear. What kind of beast will you face next?"
Zhuzhu counted with her fingers: "That's the lion's head, the dog's head, and the turtle... the black tung monster."
The more she spoke, the less she sounded, and in the end she was almost inaudible, and her little face, as big as a palm, was flushed.
Seeing that her expression was strange, Cookie said strangely: "Sister Zhuzhu, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with turtles? Brother Yang, do you know?"
Yang Ni looked embarrassed and explained: "The word Xuanwu is clearly written on the drum, but you must call it a turtle."
Cookie could clearly feel what he was deliberately covering up from his spiritual sense. Seeing that he and Zhuzhu were unnatural, she turned her head and couldn't ask: "Xiao Bu, do you know?"
He had to stare at his round eyes, full of doubts, and quickly shook his head: "Maybe Xuanwu sounds more majestic."
Cookie gave him annoyed look. She knew that Yang Ni and Zhuzhu were hiding something from her. Anyway, there would be no good things to look at them.
Thinking of Zhuzhu's boyfriend just died, a sense of crisis slowly surged into her heart. She murmured in a low voice: "I still prefer another spider sister."
Not to mention what the cookie misunderstood here, nor to mention that Zhuzhu was shy and blushed. Yang Ni said quickly: "Although the lion is placed at the door, its function is to guard the house rather than to guard the door. It is to obtain it as a mighty and auspicious meaning. And to be careful, it should be a silhouette rather than a lion, and it belongs to one of the nine sons of the dragon. From this perspective, I think the lion will not be the animal we are looking for."
"The turtle that Zhuzhu mentioned should be a turtle, and is also one of the nine sons of the dragon. Moreover, they appear more often in cemeteries and ancestral halls, and can also be ruled out." Yang Ni continued.
Cookie's eyes lit up: "Then there are only dogs left!" She chose the dog. Now Yang Ni eliminated the other two, which made the little girl in the emotionally sensitive period think that her brother Yang is protecting herself in this way.
Yang Ni, who had no such enlightenment, nodded on his own and replied: "That's right. But there is another reason to make me sure it's a dog. The elephant-headed wild beast just now claimed to be a big happy heaven. Everyone has seen it, but do you know who appeared in the mythology and legends as a human body?
Cookie and Bull Shake their head blankly.
Zhuzhu knew a little more. Although she looked young, she was actually the oldest of the four people present. She thoughtfully said: "I remember there was a god named Anubis in Egyptian mythology, but isn't it a wolf-headed human body?"
Yang Ni nodded and said seriously: "That's right, it's Anubis. Many people think it's a wolf head, but it should actually be a jackal head. The jackal is a wild dog that eats rotten. What I want to say is it. Do you know that it has a close relationship with our country's Buddhism."
Yang Ni studied history at the University of Science and Technology, so he had some knowledge of the world history and was particularly familiar with the glorious history of ancient Egypt out of personal interest.
In fact, the pyramids, mummies, scarabs, etc. of ancient Egypt are endless elements in Hollywood movies. Even if they are not professional history, they know a little bit.
Zhuzhu had been to Egypt with a certain boyfriend and took photos under the Sphinx, but she never thought about the relationship between Egypt, which was far away in Africa and Buddhism in our country.
Yang Ni speeded up his speech. After communicating with Cookie's spiritual sense, he was no longer accustomed to this original communication method of language. The efficiency was too slow and it was easy to cause misunderstandings, but now it is time very precious.
He tried his best to explain: "Everyone knows the Queen Mother of the West. She first appeared in the "Shan Hai Jing". She was a god of primitive Buddhism. Later, Taoism flourished and gradually evolved into a Taoist honorable god."
Cookie said curiously: "Is the Queen Mother of the West the Queen Mother of Journey to the West the Queen Mother of "Journey to the West"?"
Yang Ni shook his head: "No, it's much earlier than her. It's probably from the same period as Nuwa and the ancient Buddha of Lanting. The "Shan Hai Jing" describes her as this: tiger teeth, leopard tail, and a hole, called Queen Mother of the West. This image looks incredible, but if you see the mask of the ancient Egyptian female pharaoh Tutankhamun at the same time, you will be surprised to find that the two are exactly the same, because the ancient Egyptians like to decorate themselves with wild beasts. If we say from this perspective, the West Kunlun Mountains, which are full of monsters in the "Shan Hai Jing", will never be the Kunlun Mountains covered with heavy snow all year round, but are likely to be the Kilimanjaro Mountains in Africa."
Zhuzhu felt a little incredible. This was the first time she heard this statement.
Seeing everyone's suspicious expressions, Yang Ni quickly explained: "Actually, this speculation was not proposed by me, but was told to us by an old professor who studied ancient Egyptian history when he was in college. He said a lot at that time, and because it was very interesting, I was deeply impressed."
After a pause, he continued: "In fact, many animals recorded in the "Shan Hai Jing" can be found in Africa. At that time, the professor's evaluation of the "Shan Hai Jing" was that this was by no means a strange novel, but an ancient world geography magazine."
Chapter completed!