Yu-shi ( Chinese. 雨 師 ; ext .: "Lord of the rains") is the rain god in Chinese mythology [1] , whose cult has been preserved from ancient times to the present day [2] .
Description
Identified and identified with different characters and creatures: with an insect doll (" Shan Hai Jing " - "Book of Mountains and Seas"); with Xuan-ming , the son of the deity of Gong-gong ; with the god of the constellation Be; with a one-legged Shan-yan bird changing its size, whose breath dried the sea. In later temple images, he is represented in the guise of a black-bearded military leader, dressed in yellow armor and holding a bowl with a dragon in his left hand, and spraying rain with his right hand or directing rain clouds with his sword [2] .
According to the Book of Mountains and Seas, Yu-shi has a naked black-faced concubine ( Chinese 雨 師 妾 ), who holds a snake in each hand, also has a green snake in her left ear and a red one in her right ear [3] [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Yu-shi // Big Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 1st ed. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1991. - ISBN 5-85270-160-2 .
- ↑ 1 2 Riftin, 1988 , p. 678
- ↑ (Chinese)郝 懿行 箋 疏 ： 「雨 師 妾 ， 蓋 亦 國 名。」
- ↑ Popov, 1907 , p. 77.
Literature
- Popov P.S. Chinese Pantheon // Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. - SPb. , 1907. - Vol. 6 . - S. 77 .
- Yu-shi / Riftin B.L. // Mythological Dictionary / Ch. ed. E. M. Meletinsky . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990 .-- S. 646 . - ISBN 5-85270-032-0 .
- Yu-shi / Riftin B.L. // Myths of the world : Encycl. in 2 t / hl ed. S. A. Tokarev . - 2nd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1988. - T. 2: K — Ya. - S. 678.