love, above all, stories that put words in the beginning, the "myth of myths," to discover the special tenderness that triggers was seen as the birth of the cosmos.
This particular version of the myth of the myths is one of my favorites.
will tell that I love with Dee.
will be that the protagonist is a goddess and half serpent, as some know, the Serepentesse I are particularly nice.
that will my natural inclination to disorder leads me to admire those who, like the goddess Nuwa, creates order and (re) ordering protects.
happens often, in the myths of the myths that the state of departure is a great soup heaven and earth, a chaos of undefined elements completely mixed, interpenetrating, without definitions or boundaries. Usually, at some point someone decided to separate them.
In this story the decision to switch on the Universe is Nuwa from its socket, the body coil: you put commitment and the beautiful square columns supporting the cosmic time to remove the sky from the land, he cleared indifferentiation, creates the world and fills.
It is a hard top! But overcome the inertia and set in motion the world, everything becomes lighter and ivertente: mountains, lakes, rivers, seas, the animals are cast, easily.
It is surprising to watch the game own image, reflected on a pond ... Nuwa, which fortunately is not the human race Narciso, rather than fall into it (In), he decides to play what he saw and that has so affected, using the bottom of muddy clay.
This slight creates men and women, and offers to their two-legged creatures , suitable for working in this brand new world.
This slight creates men and women, and offers to their two-legged creatures , suitable for working in this brand new world.
E the whirling them to reproduce, to populate it, that the new world is vast.
As in almost all the stories that are respected, even here there is a war .
This is a fight violent, destructive, between the demons of the underworld, so bloody as to shake the whole earth. Since the collapse of the cosmos itself, to be waver all the columns that hold up the heavens, those columns that Nuwa, orderly, had built with great patience.
It seems that the sky crashing to earth, and the land can not support its weight, and its depth chthonic materializes a terrible black dragon that destroys everything in its path.
Everything mad: g The animals, terrified, are the slaughter of men.
Everything mad: g The animals, terrified, are the slaughter of men.
Who can save the day? Only the body of the Snake Goddess, she who created and ordered, will, re-ordering, pacify.
And everything is repeated: Nuwa gets back to work, to rebuild the pillars that hold the cosmos organized, pull up the sky from the four corners as if to dry, put a big blue sheet.
alone defeats the dragon, and appease the crazed animal.
Everything in its place.
And everything is repeated: Nuwa gets back to work, to rebuild the pillars that hold the cosmos organized, pull up the sky from the four corners as if to dry, put a big blue sheet.
alone defeats the dragon, and appease the crazed animal.
Everything in its place.
Almost.
In fact, the goddess, exhausted, he lies on the ground never to rise more, and his body becomes a huge mountain range in China, I remember the old times, when the Snake Goddess had taken out the cosmos from the primordial chaos.
Putting the world and the world.
* version of this myth on which I based the story comes from "The hundred great gods" of Stephen Case
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