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AllatRa by Anastasia Novykh
It’s worth mentioning that in Ancient China the green dragon was a very popular and, as
they say nowadays, widely spun character. It was presented to people as a symbol of
spring, changes, and the Orient. However, it was already a representamen substitution,
an associative merging with an image earlier popular in tribes, older and more
significant in mythology, which image combined features of a bird (later – of a human
face) and a snake. In Old Chinese myths such image was embodied, for example, in a
archaic female deity of the progenitress Mother Nyuy-va (Nyuyva, a woman gently
sliding to the other world, like water; having a connection both with the earthly and the
heavenly worlds). In legends, she was called the creator of all things and all people.
Moreover, according to old stories, she first created a girl while looking at her own
reflection in the water, only later she created more other female and male mortals.
Having united the latter two kinds, she made them reproduce further generations
themselves, and entrusted them to bring up and educate children. In Southeast China
cosmogony, she was assigned the major role of a formative deity. She was regarded as
possessing preternatural powers and capable of making 70 reincarnations in one day.
This is an echo of the Knowledge of the 72 dimensions and of the fact that a deity
creates from the 72nd and the 1st dimensions, whereas these two dimensions influence
all other 70 ones. She was associated with the victory over the black dragon (which was
a personification of evil spirits), with the restoration of the cosmic balance which had
been destroyed as a result of a disaster when the four earthly limits had collapsed.
Furthermore, the blue-green colour was exactly the intrinsic to this formative divine
female hypostasis. In myths of various peoples this colour embodied the water element
and the female cosmic principle. It’s a special colour indicating certain achievements in
spiritual practices. I shall tell about it later in more detail. And now I’ll just note that
even in traditional ideas of the Chinese the green-blue segment of the colour spectrum is
a single unit and marked with hieroglyphs combining the meaning of both “green” and
“blue”.
Nyuyva progenitress Mother was often portrayed in couple with Fu-see (Fusee) creature
resembling her and having a human body and a tail instead of legs. At that, their bodies
were interlaced. People who didn’t possess the sacral knowledge interpreted such
interlacing as matrimonial intimacy. In actual fact, in many cases, especially on ancient
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