The most recent self-positioning is the river god. Archive the experience of being a river god.
My initial impression of the River God came from the story of Ximen Leopard in elementary school textbooks. When Ximen Bao went to either side, he heard that the local leader colluded with the sorcerer, and under the guise of offering sacrifices to Hebo, he threw beautiful girls into the river to save money, making the people miserable. Ximen Bao followed this discourse structure and threw the leader and the witch into the river, saying, whoever wants to visit Hebo, stand up now, don't be a coward. Hence the dismounting.
He Bo is such an existence that seems to be silent and does not appear, but has played a huge role.
With the exception of Hebo, the species of river gods seem to be very broad. The beautiful lady in Luoshen Fu is the daughter of Fuxi's family. Large and small Dragon King Temples are considered branches of the sea (the little white dragon was banished from the sea to the land, and had to become a horse. Is this a manifestation of the localization of farming civilization and the tameness of marine civilization?). There is also a sand monk from Liusha River, alias Huang Po and Tu Mu. His gender characteristics are very inconspicuous. After all, he is also the former Rolling Shutter General. After becoming a river god for a while, he continued to go back to be a golden body Arhat.
That's the relaxed vibe of the polytheistic culture that I've always liked. As a general term for the middle and lower levels of gods, river gods, regardless of their origin, have both the self-struggle of spirit beasts and ghosts, and the inheritance and arrangement of bloodline and seniority; in terms of morality, they are both nurturers and punishers. , if you receive incense and tribute but don’t do anything, you can rightly be disliked, with a simple performanceist professional ethics; in terms of destination, it makes people wonder, where did the river god of a river go in the end? No one knew about it, and no one was particularly concerned about it. After all, the people who sacrificed were only concerned with their own safety in this world. Ancient Greco-Roman mythology has obvious polytheistic characteristics, but it does not seem to have a similar loose temperament. The origins of the gods tend to be pure generational genealogy; in terms of morality, they always feel that there are too many absurd things, and the id and superego faces are ugly. In terms of destination, it seems that they intend to exist from generation to generation, and there is nothing for newcomers. The generational position of the people, deserves to have anxiety every day and finally be revolutionized (this sentence is full of guilty conscience, there is a high possibility of having a little understanding of Greek and Roman mythology, but I don’t want to take a serious look at it).
That's why I can become a river god, because its threshold is not high at all. As long as you are in a life situation where you will lose your temper if you don't complete the sacrifice, you are also a river god. Parents to their children, leaders to their subordinates, and organizations to their members, all have the face of a river god. After all, the so-called necessity of God does not come from the fact that “flat individuals need a higher level of power to condense into functional units.” The classicity of the pyramid also lies in the representation of this social attribute from the flat mass to the three-dimensional ladder. Or, anyone who flashes in their hearts "you can go, but you can't stop beeping" is a candidate for the river god.
However, the difficulty of the operation of the river god is that since it exists in a small river basin, it is completely impossible to play the ultimate signboard of "all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good". Therefore, the sense of distance from the sacrificer is difficult to grasp. Take parents as an example. On the one hand, parents who have requirements on the frequency and quality of their children's sacrifices are considered to be in the position of river gods; however, the inseparability of blood relationship means that parents are not strictly river gods, because It is estimated that there are only a few parents who can drown out the people who do not sacrifice their sacrifices (so I love Nezha all the year round, and Xiahou Dun, who is the opposite of Nezha). Other power relationships modeled on parent-child relationships therefore suffer from this problem. When will this face as a punisher be taken out, and what will happen after it is taken out, anyway, I, the river god, is still a little troubled by this.
Probably for this reason, there are so many out-of-control roaring rivers, and the new born on the land that has been submerged and faded away, tenderly does not retain the cruel memories of the past. This is not the same as the vast expanse of whiteness that is really clean. Snow is born. Flood is WTO. As for the legendary "water conserving all things without fighting", I always doubt that there is really no need for such water, and there really is no river god.
If you think about it carefully, the existence of rivers and gods is based on needs. A river that is not needed has no river god in it.
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