Now, let's talk about Shangdi or Shangti. I have seen the Documentary "The Sacred meaning of China's altar of Heaven" based on the Shangdi the God of Heaven indicated by the Shang dynasty. It states they would bring the bullock and the wine offerings to God and the Emperor would wash to purify themselves and make sure everything is considered perfect before the entry of the God of Heaven. This is in the Bible as the people would prepare everything when God would dwell with them in the Tabernacle (which is the Turkic Mongolian Yurt). They would play music and have the burnt offerings ready before God. They say the earliest record of sacrifices to Shangdi was 2250 b.c. by Emperor Shun, and at the same time Moses was dealing with the same God (apparently). What's interesting is that in the Documentary equates with the God Shangdi to Zeus who is Indra the God of Heaven. They would compare this to Judaism of course, but unfortunately, I already know the Jews in Judaism worship Dagon just as the whole world (as they are under Rome). They won't know that it's based on the Aryans who are the Turkic Mongolian people. It's an interesting Documentary but they amalgamated with that of Jesus and the Cross as the lamb who died for the sins of mankind and how it paved the way to Christianity (Which the Jesuits are involved).
Much of the things is correct though, like the Mandate of Heaven who is the Emperor is really based on the Levitical Priesthood to the offerings and such (as stated in the Bible). However, I have my opposing statements on the numerous animal sacrifices as this is no different than the animal sacrifices towards Dagon. The Africans do this in Vodun, and the three Abrahamic religions as they are still towards Dagon. So, is it any different amongst the Chinese doing this towards Shangdi? I already know that the animal sacrifices were based on the God of fire in the Bible, as the people would offer the meats and the wine to God, but I question how much of these passages have been changed. Even though it is still the Brahmin culture but much of that has changed and are mixed in with the cult of black nations. But out of all this, this also tells me that the true Aryan culture has nothing to do with Buddhism nor Hinduism. Like I stated before, the real God wouldn't give the Hindu or Buddhist culture nor this dragon worship because the whole world was already into this. So, this wouldn't be Shiva but Indra who gave the Aryans a different culture than the rest of the world, but setting aside the Bible I want to deconstruct China's History on Shangdi and the Yellow Emperor Huangdi.
Now the apparent House where the name of the Lord is supposed to be held in Beijing China which is where the Temple of Heaven is located. This is what Marco Polo had stated on the description of the name of God of Heaven as Shang-Ti which is in scripted in Manchu and another Chinese dialect. However, when looking up Shangdi it's shown that he does have an image as he is pretty much Xuanwu or Heidi the Black God in that matter. Shangdi was said to be an individual deity prior to becoming the embodiment of Heaven or Earth (as Di) later set by the Zhou. So, with this, I question if the black inhabitants were there then could they have had this God originally prior to being moved out? Were they there prior to the Shang or the Xia or even older? Because as I have established the connections of the black God of fire as Mahakala who by the way, is a God with "negroid" features and though having red colored hair, still would have the hair texture of a negro (despite the changes).
Now I had read some blogs detailing the Shang having African connections and how the Gods of the Chinese were the black gods to this day, to which I say is true but would need more connection as to why this is case. As I have seen the idol of Shangdi is shown to be black in complexion thus detailing that this Xuan Wu or Xuandi as Heidi the Black Emperor of the North. Then when learning about the Yellow Emperor representing Saturn and who is known as Huangdi. There have been indications he relates to Di as Earth connecting to the Underworld and serpents, and yet the mythos states he battles Chiyou who is the fire deity as this mirrors the Michael and Red Dragon story. So, based on the Shang and the Xia are pretty vague but will get to this. If there were black people in India and China then they obviously had some kind of influence based from Thoth and the Atlanteans, but first let's detail the famous Yellow Emperor.
In the Wiki states this:
The Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch, or Huangdi (traditional Chinese:黃帝;simplified Chinese:黄帝) in Chinese, is a mythical Chinese sovereign and culture hero included among the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. He is revered as a deity individually or as part of the Five Regions Highest Deities (Chinese:五方上帝;pinyin:Wǔfāng Shàngdì)[3]in Chinese folk religion.[4]Regarded as the initiator of Chinese culture,[5]he is traditionally credited with numerous innovations – including the traditional Chinese calendar, Taoism,[6]wooden houses, boats, carts,[7]the compass needle,[8]"the earliest forms of writing",[9]and cuju, a ball game.[5]Calculated by Jesuit missionaries, as based on various Chinese chronicles, Huangdi's traditional reign dates begin in either 2698 or 2697 BC, spanning one hundred years exactly, later accepted by the twentieth-century promoters of a universal calendar starting with the Yellow Emperor.
Huangdi's cult is first attested in the Warring States period,[10]and became prominent late in that same period and into the early Han dynasty, when he was portrayed as the originator of the centralized state, as a cosmic ruler, and as a patron of esoteric arts. A large number of texts – such as the Huangdi Neijing, a medical classic, and the Huangdi Sijing, a group of political treatises – were thus attributed to him. Having waned in influence during most of the imperial period, in the early twentieth century Huangdi became a rallying figure for Han Chinese attempts to overthrow the rule of the Qing dynasty, remaining a powerful symbol within modern Chinese nationalism.
Huangdi:
Until 221 BC, when Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty coined the title huangdi (皇帝) – conventionally "emperor" - the characterdi帝did not refer to earthly rulers but to Shangdi, the highest god of the Shang dynasty(c. 1600–1046 BC) pantheon.[12]In the Warring States period (c. 475–221 BC), the term dion its own could also refer to the deities associated with the five Sacred Mountains of China and colors. Huangdi (黃帝), the "yellow di", was one of the latter. To emphasize the religious meaning of di in pre-imperial times, historians of early China commonly translate the god's name as "Yellow Thearch" and the first emperor's title as "August Thearch", in which "thearch" refers to a godly ruler.[13]
In the late Warring States period, the Yellow Emperor was integrated into the cosmological scheme of the Five Phases, in which the color yellow represents the earth phase, the Yellow Dragon, and the center.[14]The correlation of the colors in association with different dynasties was mentioned in the Lüshi Chunqiu (late 3rd century BC), where the Yellow Emperor's reign was seen to be governed by earth.[15]The characterhuang黃("yellow") was often used in place of thehomophonoushuang皇, which means "august" (in the sense of 'distinguished') or "radiant", giving Huangdi attributes close to those of Shangdi, the Shang supreme god.
The Records of the Grand Historian, compiled by Sima Qian in the first century BC, gives the Yellow Emperor's name as "Xuan Yuan" (traditional Chinese:軒轅;simplified Chinese:轩辕;pinyin:Xuān Yuán<Old Chinese(B-S) *qʰa[r]-[ɢ]ʷa[n], lit. "Chariot Shaft"[17]). Third-century scholar Huangfu Mi, who wrote a work on the sovereigns of antiquity, commented that Xuanyuan was the name of a hill where Huangdi had lived and that he later took as a name.[18]The Classic of Mountains and Seas mentions a Xuanyuan nation whose inhabitants have human faces, snake bodies, and tails twisting above their heads;[19]Yuan Ke, a contemporary scholar of early Chinese mythology, "noted that the appearance of these people is characteristic of gods and suggested that they may reflect the form of the Yellow Thearch himself".[20]The Qing dynasty scholar Liang Yusheng (梁玉繩, 1745–1819) argued instead that the hill was named after the Yellow Emperor.[18]Xuanyuan is also the name of the star Regulus in Chinese, the star being associated with Huangdi in traditional astronomy.[21]He is also associated to the broader constellations Leo and Lynx, of which the latter is said to represent the body of the Yellow Dragon (黃龍Huánglóng), Huangdi's animal form.
Huangdi was also referred to as "Youxiong" (有熊;Yǒuxióng). This name has been interpreted as either a place name or a clan name. According to British sinologist Herbert Allen Giles(1845–1935), that name was "taken from that of [Huangdi's] hereditary principality".[23]William Nienhauser, a modern translator of the Records of the Grand Historian, states that Huangdi was originally the head of the Youxiong clan, which lived near what is now Xinzheng in Henan.[24]Rémi Mathieu, a French historian of Chinese myths and religion, translates "Youxiong" as "possessor of bears" and links Huangdi to the broader theme of the bear in world mythology.[25]Ye Shuxian has also associated the Yellow Emperor with bear legends common across northeast Asia people as well as the Dangun legend.
Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian describes the Yellow Emperor's family name as Gongsun (公孫).[2]Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi, however, describes the Yellow Emperor taking on the family name 姬Jīafter the Ji River he lived close to.[27] In Han dynasty texts, the Yellow Emperor is also called upon as the "Yellow God" (黃神Huángshén).[28]Certain accounts interpret him as the incarnation of the "Yellow God of the Northern Dipper" (黄神北斗Huángshén Běidǒu), another name of the universal god (Shangdi上帝or Tiandi 天帝).[29]According to a definition in apocryphal texts related to the Hétú河圖, the Yellow Emperor "proceeds from the essence of the Yellow God".[30]
As a cosmological deity, the Yellow Emperor is known as the "Great Emperor of the Central Peak" (中岳大帝Zhōngyuè Dàdì),[3]and in the Shizi as the "Yellow Emperor with Four Faces" (黃帝四面Huángdì Sìmiàn).[31]In old accounts the Yellow Emperor is identified as a deity of light (and his name is explained in the Shuowen jiezi to derive from guāng光, "light") and thunder, and as one and the same with the "Thunder God" (雷神Léishén),[32][33]who in turn, as a later mythological character, is distinguished as the Yellow Emperor's foremost pupil, such as in the Huangdi Neijing.
The Chinese historian Sima Qian– and much Chinese historiography following him – considered the Yellow Emperor to be a more historical figure than earlier legendary figures such as Fu Xi, Nüwa, and Shennong. Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian begins with the Yellow Emperor, while passing over the others.
Throughout most of Chinese history, the Yellow Emperor and the other ancient sages were considered to be historical figures.[5]Their historicity started to be questioned in the 1920s by historians such as Gu Jiegang, one of the founders of the Doubting Antiquity School in China.[5]In their attempts to prove that the earliest figures of Chinese history were mythological, Gu and his followers argued that these ancient sages were originally gods who were later depicted as humans by the rationalist intellectuals of the Warring States period.[35]Yang Kuan, a member of the same current of historiography, noted that only in the Warring States period had the Yellow Emperor started to be described as the first ruler of China.[36]Yang thus argued that Huangdi was a later transformation of Shangdi, the supreme god of the Shang dynasty's pantheon.[14]
Also in the 1920s, French scholars Henri Maspero and Marcel Granet published critical studies of China's accounts of high antiquity.[37]In his Danses et légendes de la Chine ancienne ["Dances and legends of ancient China"], for example, Granet argued that these tales were "historicized legends" that said more about the time when they were written than about the time they purported to describe.[38]
In the "middle of the [20th] century, a group of" Chinese "historians proposed the theory that [the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors]" were originally Chinese gods who became thought of as human during the later period of the Zhou dynasty.[8]Most scholars now agree that the Yellow Emperor originated as a god who was later represented as a historical person.[39]K. C. Chang sees Huangdi and other cultural heroes as "ancient religious figures" who were "euhemerized" in the late Warring States and Han periods.[5]Historian of ancient China Mark Edward Lewis speaks of the Yellow Emperor's "earlier nature as a god", whereas Roel Sterckx, a professor at University of Cambridge, calls Huangdi a "legendary cultural hero".
The origin of Huangdi's mythology is unclear, but historians have formulated several hypotheses about it. Yang Kuan, a member of the Doubting Antiquity School(1920s–40s), argued that the Yellow Emperor was derived from Shangdi, the highest god of the Shang dynasty. Yang reconstructs the etymology as follows: Shangdi上帝→ Huang Shangdi皇上帝→ Huangdi皇帝→ Huangdi黄帝, in which he claims thathuang黃("yellow") either was a variant Chinese character for huang皇 ("august") or was used as a way to avoid the naming taboo for the latter.[44]Yang's view has been criticized by Mitarai Masaru[45]and by Michael Puett.[46]
Historian Mark Edward Lewis agrees thathuang黄andhuang皇were often interchangeable, but disagreeing with Yang, he claims that huang meaning "yellow" appeared first.[41]Based on what he admits is a "novel etymology" likening huang黄to the phonetically close wang尪(the "burned shaman" in Shang rainmaking rituals), Lewis suggests that "Huang" in "Huangdi" might originally have meant "rainmaking shaman" or "rainmaking ritual."[47]Citing late Warring States and early Han versions of Huangdi's myth, he further argues that the figure of the Yellow Emperor originated in ancient rain-making rituals in which Huangdi represented the power of rain and clouds, whereas his mythical rival Chiyou (or the Yan Emperor) stood for fire and drought.[48]
Also disagreeing with Yang Kuan's hypothesis, Sarah Allan finds it unlikely that such a popular myth as the Yellow Emperor's could have come from a taboo character.[42]She argues instead that pre-Shang "'history'," including the story of the Yellow Emperor, "can all be understood as a later transformation and systematization of Shang mythology."[49]In her view, Huangdi was originally an unnamed "lord of the underworld" (or the "Yellow Springs"), the mythological counterpart of the Shang sky deity Shangdi.[42]At the time, Shang rulers claimed that their mythical ancestors, identified with "the [ten] suns, birds, east, life, [and] the Lord on High" (i.e., Shangdi), had defeated an earlier people associated with "the underworld, dragons, west."[50]After the Zhou dynasty overthrew the Shang dynasty in the eleventh century BC, Zhou leaders reinterpreted Shang myths as meaning that the Shang had vanquished a real political dynasty, which was eventually named the Xia dynasty.[50]By Han times – as seen in Sima Qian's account in the Shiji– the Yellow Emperor, who as lord of the underworld had been symbolically linked to the Xia, had become a historical ruler whose descendants were thought to have founded the Xia.[51]
As with any myth, there are numerous versions of Huangdi's story, emphasizing different themes and interpreting the main character's significance in different ways.
Birth:
According to Huangfu Mi (215–282), the Yellow Emperor was born in Shou Qiu("Longevity Hill"),[114]which is today on the outskirts of the city of Qufu in Shandong. Early on, he lived with his tribe near the Ji River–Edwin Pulleyblank states that "there seems to be no record of a Ji River outside the myth"[115]– and later migrated to Zhuolu in modern-day Hebei. He then became a farmer and tamed six different special beasts: the bear (熊), the brown bear(罴;羆), the pí (貔) and xiū (貅) (which later combined to form the mythical Pixiu), the ferocious chū (貙), and the tiger (虎). Huangdi is sometimes said to have been the fruit of extraordinary birth, as his mother Fubao conceived him as she was aroused, while walking in the country, by a lightning bolt from the Big Dipper. She delivered her son on the mount of Shou (Longevity) or mount Xuanyuan, after which he was named.[116]
Another story states that "Huang Di came into being when the energies that instigated the beginning of the world merged with one another, and created human beings by placing earthen statues at the cardinal points of the world and leaving them exposed for 300 years. During that time, the statues became filled with the breath of creation and eventually began to move [after the 300 years]. Huang Di...received his magic powers when he was 100 years old. He [became axian] and, riding adragon, rose toheavenwhere he became one of the five [Wufang Shangdi]. Huang Di himself rules over the fifth cardinal point, the centre."[4]
Achievements:
In traditional Chinese accounts, the Yellow Emperor is credited with teaching his people how to build shelters, tame wild animals, and grow the Five Grains, although other accounts credit Shennong with the last. He invents carts, boats, and clothing. Other inventions credited to the emperor include the Chinese diadem (冠冕), throne rooms (宮室), the bow sling,[7]early Chinese astronomy, the Chinese calendar, math calculations, code of sound laws (音律),[117]coins and the concept of money,[7]and cuju, an early Chinese version of football.[118]He is also sometimes said to have been partially responsible for the invention of the guqinzither,[119]although others credit the Yan Emperor with inventing instruments for Ling Lun's compositions. There are other major traditions where Fuxi was the one who invented the calendar and the Yellow Emperor merely reformed and intercalated it. In traditional accounts, he also goads the historian Cangjie into creating the first Chinese character writing system, the Oracle bone script, and his principal wife Leizu invents sericulture and teaches his people how to weave silk and dye clothes. At one point in his reign the Yellow Emperor allegedly visited the mythical East sea and met a talking beast called the Bai Ze who taught him the knowledge of all supernatural creatures.[122][123]This beast explained to him there were 11,522 (or 1,522) kinds of supernatural creatures.
Battle:
The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor were both leaders of a tribe or a combination of two tribes near the Yellow River. The Yan Emperor hailed from a different area around the Jiang River, which a geographical work called the Shuijingzhu identified as a stream near Qishan in what was the Zhou homeland before they defeated the Shang.[115]Both emperors lived in a time of warfare.[124][7]The Yan Emperor proving unable to control the disorder within his realm, the Yellow Emperor took up arms to establish his domination over various warring factions. According to traditional accounts, the Yan Emperor meets the force of the "Nine Li" (九黎) under their bronze-headed leader, Chi You, and his 81 horned and four-eyed brothers[125]and suffers a decisive defeat. He flees to Zhuolu and begs the Yellow Emperor for help. During the ensuing Battle of Zhuolu the Yellow Emperor employs his tamed animals and Chi You darkens the sky by breathing out a thick fog. This leads the emperor to develop the south-pointing chariot, which he uses to lead his army out of the miasma.[125]He next calls upon the drought demon Nüba to dispel Chi You's storm.[125]He then destroys the Nine Li and defeats Chi You.[126]Later he engages in battle with the Yan Emperor,defeating him at Banquanand replacing him as the primary ruler.[124]
Death:
The Yellow Emperor was said to have lived for over a hundred years before meeting a phoenix and a qilin and then dying.[23]Two tombs were built in Shaanxi within the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, in addition to others in Henan, Hebei and Gansu.[127]
Modern-day Chinese people sometimes refer to themselves as the "Descendants of Yan and Yellow Emperor", although non-Han minority groups in China may have their own myths or not count as descendants of the emperor.
Although the traditional Chinese calendar did not mark years continuously, some Han-dynasty astronomers tried to determine the years of the life and reign of the Yellow Emperor. In 78 BC, under the reign of Emperor Zhao of Han, an official called Zhang Shouwang (張壽望) calculated that 6,000 years had passed since the time of Huangdi; the court refused his proposal for reform, countering that only 3,629 years had elapsed.[140]In the proleptic Julian calendar, the court's calculations would have placed the Yellow Emperor in the late 38th century BC rather than in the 27th century BC that is conventional nowadays.
During their Jesuit missions in China in the seventeenth century, the Jesuits tried to determine what year should be considered the epoch of the Chinese calendar. In his Sinicae historiae decas prima (first published in Munichin 1658), Martino Martini (1614–1661) dated the royal ascension of Huangdi to2697 BC, but started the Chinese calendar with the reign of Fuxi, which he claimed started in 2952 BCE.[141]Philippe Couplet's (1623–1693) "Chronological table of Chinese monarchs" (Tabula chronologica monarchiae sinicae; 1686) also gave the same date for the Yellow Emperor.[142]The Jesuits' dates provoked great interest in Europe, where they were used for comparisons with Biblical chronology.[143]Modern Chinese chronology has generally accepted Martini's dates, except that it usually places the reign of Huangdi in 2698 BC (see next paragraph) and omits Huangdi's predecessors Fuxi and Shennong, who are considered "too legendary to include."[144]
Helmer Aslaksen, a mathematician who teaches at the National University of Singapore and specializes in the Chinese calendar, explains that those who use 2698 BC as a first year probably do so because they want to have "a year 0 as the starting point", or because "they assume that the Yellow Emperor started his year with the Winter solstice of 2698 BC", hence the difference with the year 2697 BC calculated by the Jesuits.[145]
Starting in 1903, radical publications started using the projected date of birth of the Yellow Emperor as the first year of the Chinese calendar.[79]Different newspapers and magazines proposed different dates. Jiangsu, for example counted 1905 as year 4396 (making 2491 BC the first year of the Chinese calendar), whereas the Minbao (the organ of the Tongmenghui) reckoned 1905 as 4603 (first year: 2698 BC).[146]Liu Shipei (1884–1919) created the Yellow Emperor Calendar to show the unbroken continuity of the Han race and Han culture from earliest times. There is no evidence that this calendar was used before the 20th century.[147]Liu's calendar started with the birth of the Yellow Emperor, which was reckoned to be2711 BC.[148]When Sun Yat-sen declared the foundation of the Republic of China on January 2, 1912, he decreed that this was the 12th day of the 11th month of year 4609 (epoch: 2698 BCE), but that the state would now be using the solar calendar and count 1912 as the first year of the Republic.[149]Chronological tables published in the 1938 edition of the Cihai dictionary followed Sun Yat-sen in using 2698 as the year of Huangdi's accession; this chronology is now "widely reproduced, with little variation".
Now, I know it's a lot, but these are pretty much the important parts based on the Yellow Emperor. If you read these parts, you will notice so much vague interpretations, myths and propaganda surrounding the Yellow Emperor. The Han Chinese was said to have their own Dynasty coming from the Yellow Emperor to them uniting against the Manchus who are said to be of a different race. By the way the fall of the Qin Dynasty is based is where the Movie "The Last Emperor" 1987 is based on, as Communism had taken over China. They state the Yellow Emperor to being the first Emperor in China, whereas there is no official date when this God or person had reigned. They even state him to being born from through immaculate conception (from a bolt of lightning hitting his mother) which is like the Jesus and the Mary story. Then they also compare him to Lei gong the bird God of rain and thunder and lightning as his battle against Chiyou who represents fire and drought which mirrors the battle between Zeus and Typhon, and Garuda and the Naga.
There are speculations and ongoing debates but again, it's not official if it began in the Shang Dynasty, the Xia or even prior, though the Xia is as far back they can go. It states this:
"During their Jesuit missions in China in the seventeenth century, the Jesuits tried to determine what year should be considered the epoch of the Chinese calendar. In his Sinicae historiae decas prima (first published in Munichin 1658), Martino Martini (1614–1661) dated the royal ascension of Huangdi to2697 BC, but started the Chinese calendar with the reign of Fuxi, which he claimed started in 2952 BCE.[141]Philippe Couplet's (1623–1693) "Chronological table of Chinese monarchs" (Tabula chronologica monarchiae sinicae; 1686) also gave the same date for the Yellow Emperor.[142]The Jesuits' dates provoked great interest in Europe, where they were used for comparisons with Biblical chronology.[143]Modern Chinese chronology has generally accepted Martini's dates, except that it usually places the reign of Huangdi in 2698 BC (see next paragraph) and omits Huangdi's predecessors Fuxi and Shennong, who are considered "too legendary to include."
Here the Jesuits were interested in the dates or rather changing the Chinese Calendar to the appropriate time to fit the "Biblical Chronology". Its states they were comparing the Bible timelines to the Chinese timelines, but we already know that the timelines in the Bible have already been changed. This is where we find out that they needed to change the past and hide the real truth on where Christianity really began, not in those fake lands called Israel and Palestine. But first let's see Shangdi, as it states this God to being worship by the Shang Dynasty.
Shangdi, also called simply Di (Chinese:帝;pinyin:Dì;lit.'Lord'),[1] is the name of the Chinese Highest Deity or "Lord Above" in the theology of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tiān ("Heaven" or "Great Whole") of Zhou theology.[2]
Although the use of "Tian" to refer to the absolute God of the universe is predominant in Chinese religion today, "Shangdi" continues to be used in a variety of traditions, including certain philosophical schools,[3]certain strains of Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism,[4]some Chinese salvationist religions(notably Yiguandao) and Chinese Protestant Christianity. In addition, it is commonly used by contemporary Chinese (both mainland and overseas) and by religious and secular groups in East Asia, as a name of a singular universal deity and as a non-religious translation for God in Abrahamic religions.
The earliest references to Shangdi are found in oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang dynasty in the 2nd millennium BC, although the later work Classic of History claims yearly sacrifices were made to him by Emperor Shun, even before the Xia dynasty. Shangdi was regarded as the ultimate spiritual power by the ruling elite of the Huaxia during the Shang dynasty: he was believed to control victory in battle,[1]success or failure of harvests,[1]weather[1]conditions such as the floods of the Yellow River, and the fate of the capital city[1]and kingdom. Shangdi seems to have ruled a hierarchy of other gods controlling nature, as well as the spirits of the deceased.[11]These ideas were later mirrored or carried on by the Taoist Jade Emperor and his celestial bureaucracy, and Shangdi was later syncretized with the Jade Emperor.[12] Shangdi was probably more transcendent than immanent, only working through lesser gods.[11]Shangdi was considered too distant to be worshiped directly by ordinary mortals.[1]Instead, the Shang kings proclaimed that Shangdi had made himself accessible through the souls of their royal ancestors,[13]both in the legendary past and in recent generations as the departed Shang kings joined him in the afterlife. The kings could thus successfully entreat Shangdi directly.[14]Many of the oracle bone inscriptions record these petitions, usually praying for rain[15]but also seeking approval from Shangdi for state action. Shangdi was seen as somewhat human or at least anthropomorphic[16]and the "greatest ancestor" by some worshippers during this time.
As mentioned above, sacrifices offered to Shangdi by the king are claimed by traditional Chinese histories to predate the Xia dynasty. Thesurviving archaeological recordshows that by the Shang, theshoulder bladesof sacrificed oxen were used to send questions or communication through fire and smoke to the divine realm, a practice known asscapulimancy. The heat would cause the bones to crack, and royal diviners would interpret the marks as Shangdi's response to the king. Inscriptions used for divination were buried in special orderly pits, while those for practice or records were buried in common middens after use.[33]
During the Shang, it is observed that Di did not receive a direct cult. Instead, his consular spirits would manifest in the human world to be offered sacrifices. The Shang often identified these spirits as Di and sometimes performed a "Di-sacrifice" to them, illustrating intimate connections of the recipients with the being. Under Shangdi or his later names, the deity received sacrifices from the ruler of China in every Chinese dynasty annually at a great Temple of Heaven in the imperial capital. Following the principles of Chinese geomancy, this would always be located in the southern quarter of the city. During the ritual, a completely healthy bull would be slaughtered and presented as an animal sacrifice to Shangdi. The Book of Rites states the sacrifice should occur on the "longest day" on a round-mound altar. The altar would have three tiers: the highest for Shangdi and the Son of Heaven; the second-highest for the sun and moon; and the lowest for the natural gods such as the stars, clouds, rain, wind, and thunder. It is important to note that Shangdi is never represented with either images or idols. Instead, in the central building of the Temple of Heaven, in a structure called the "Imperial Vault of Heaven", a "spirit tablet" (神位, shénwèi) inscribed with the name of Shangdi is stored on the throne, Huangtian Shangdi (皇天上帝). During an annual sacrifice, the emperor would carry these tablets to the north part of the Temple of Heaven, a place called the "Prayer Hall for Good Harvests", and place them on that throne.[34]
Conflation with singular universal God:
It was during the Ming and Qing dynasties, when Roman Catholicism was introduced by Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci, that the idea of "Shangdi" started to be applied to theChristian conception of God. While initially he utilized the term Tianzhu (天主;Tiānzhǔ, lit. "The Lord of Heaven"), Ricci gradually changed the translation to "Shangdi" instead.[35][36]His usage of Shangdi was contested by Confucians, as they believed that the concept of Tian and "Shangdi" is different from that of Christianity's God: Zhōng Shǐ-shēng, through his books,[37][38]stated that Shangdi only governs, while Christianity's God is a creator, and thus they differ.[39]Ricci's translation also invited the displeasure of Dominicans and that of the Roman Curia: on March 19, 1715,Pope Clement XI released the Edict Ex Illa Die, stating that Catholics must use "Tianzhu" instead of "Shangdi" for Christianity's God.
When Protestantism entered China in the middle of the 19th century, the Protestant missionaries also encountered a similar issue: some preferred the term "Shangdi", while some preferred the term Shen("god"). A conference held in 1877 in Shanghai, discussing the translation issue, also believed that "Shangdi" of Confucianism and the Christian concept of God are different in nature. However, by the 20th century, most British missionaries, some Catholics, Chinese Orthodox Christians, and Evangelicals preferred "Shangdi" as a connection with Chinese native monotheism,[42]with some furthering the argument by linking it with the unknown god as described in the Christian Bible.[43][44][45]Catholics preferred to avoid it, due to compromises with the local authority in order to do their missions, as well as fear such translation may associate the Christian God to Chinese polytheism.[46]
Nowadays, through the secular Chinese-language media, the Chinese words "Shangdi" and "Tian" are frequently used to translate the singular universal deity with minimal religious attachment to the Christian idea of God. At the same time, Confucians and intellectuals in contemporary mainland China and Taiwan attempt to realign the term to its original meaning. Catholics officially use the term Tianzhu, while Evangelicals typically use Shangdi and/or Shen (神, "god" or "spirit").
Now, last but not least, let's recap on Fuxi:
Fuxi or Fu Hsi (Chinese:伏羲)[a][1]is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music,[2]hunting, fishing, domestication,[3]and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC[4]or 2000BC. He is also said to be the originator of bagua(the eight trigrams) after observing that there were eight fundamental building blocks in nature: heaven, earth, water, fire, thunder, wind, mountain, and lake. These eight are all made of different combinations of yin and yang, which are what came to be called bagua.[5] Fuxi was counted as the first mythical emperor of China, "a divine being with a serpent's body" who was miraculously born,[6]a Taoist deity, and/or a member of the Three Sovereigns at the beginning of the Chinese dynastic period. Some representations show him as a human with snake-like characteristics, "a leaf-wreathed head growing out of a mountain", "or as a man clothed with animal skins."
Pangu was said to be the creation god in Chinese mythology. He was a giant sleeping within anegg of chaos. As he awoke, he stood up and divided the sky and the earth. Pangu then died after standing up, and his body turned into rivers, mountains, plants, animals, and everything else in the world, among which is a powerful being known as Huaxu (華胥). Huaxu gave birth to a twin brother and sister, Fuxi and Nüwa. Fuxi and Nüwa are said to be creatures that have faces of human and bodies of snakes.[7]
However, in some myths, Fuxi was held to be the creator, not Pangu, who worked alone and not with Nüwa. Fuxi was known as the "original god", and he was said to have been born in the lower-middle reaches of the Yellow River in a place called Chengji (成紀) (possibly modern Lantian, Shaanxi province, or Tianshui, Gansu province).[9]A possible historical interpretation of the myth is that Huaxu (Fuxi's mother) was a leader during the matriarchal society (c.2600BC) as early Chinese developed language skill while Fuxi and Nüwa were leaders in the early patriarchal society (c.2600BC) while Chinese began the marriage rituals. A divinity Taihao (太皞, "The Great Bright One") appears, vaguely, in sources before the Han dynasty, independent from Fuxi. Later, Fuxi is identified with Taihao, the latter being his courtesy or formal[6]name.[11] According to legend, the goddess of the Luo River, Mifei, was the daughter of Fuxi. Additionally, some versions of the legend state that she is Fuxi's consort. She drowned in the Luo River while crossing it and became the spirit of the Luo River.[12]
Creation legend
According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Fuxi and Nüwa were the original humans who lived on the mythological Kunlun Mountain(today's Huashan). One day they set up two separated piles of fire, and the fire eventually became one. Under the fire, they decided to become husband and wife. Fuxi and Nüwa used clay to create offspring, and with the divine power they made the clay figures come alive.[9]These clay figures were the earliest human beings. Fuxi and Nüwa are commonly recognized by the Chinese as two of the Three Sovereigns (along with Shennong) in the early patriarchal society in China (c.2600BC), based on the myth about Fuxi establishing marriage ritual in his tribe. The creation of human beings was a symbolic story of having a larger family structure that included the figure of a father.
On one of the columns of the Fuxi Temple in Gansu Province, the following couplet describes Fuxi's importance: "Among the three primogenitors of Huaxia civilization, Fu Xi in Huaiyang Country ranks first."[9]During the time of his predecessor Nüwa, society was matriarchal.
古之時未有三綱、六紀，民人但知其母，不知其父，能覆前而不能覆後，臥之言去言去，起之吁吁，饑即求食，飽即棄余，茹毛飲血而衣皮葦。於是伏羲仰觀象於天，俯察法於地，因夫婦正五行，始定人道，畫八卦以治下。
In the beginning there was as yet no moral (Sangang) or social order. Men knew their mothers only, not their fathers.
[Missing translation of the following three sentences:能覆前而不能覆後They could only know/trace their offsprings but not their progenitors (promiscuous without family concept),臥之言去言去They slept whenever they wanted (non-circadian without concept of time),起之吁吁 When awoke, they started yue-ing (repeating/using a single sound to express emotions or communicate without language).]
When hungry, they searched for food; when satisfied, they threw away the remnants. They devoured their food hide and hair, drank the blood, and clad themselves in skins and rushes. Then came Fu Xi and looked upward and contemplated the images in the heavens, and looked downward and contemplated the occurrences on earth. He united man and wife, regulated the five stages of change, and laid down the laws of humanity. He devised the eight trigrams, in order to gain mastery over the world.
Fuxi taught his subjects to cook and various methods of hunting and fishing,[3]including fishing with nets and hunting with weapons made of bone, wood, or bamboo. He instituted the basic family structure,[3]as well as marriage, and offered the first open-air sacrifices to heaven. A stone tablet, dated AD 160, shows Fuxi with Nüwa. Traditionally, Fuxi is considered the originator of the methods of divination that were passed down through the ages before theI Ching.[4]In other versions of the story, he is credited to the writing of some of theI Chingitself. His divination powers are attributed to his reading of the He Map (or the Yellow River Map). According to this tradition, Fuxi had the arrangement of the trigrams of the I Ching revealed to him in the markings on the back of a mythical dragon horse (sometimes said to be a tortoise) that emerged from the Luo River. This arrangement precedes the compilation of the I Ching during the Zhou dynasty. This discovery is said to have been the origin of calligraphy. Fuxi is also credited with the invention of the Guqin musical instrument, though credit for this is also given to Shennong and Yellow Emperor.
The Figurists viewed Fuxi as Enoch, the Biblical patriarch.[13]Alexander Catcott, a Hutchinsonian, identified Fuxi with the Biblical Noah (A Treatise on the Deluge).
Fuxi and Nüwa were also thought to be gods of silk.
Okay, so let's break this down here. I already established the God Shiva to be Fuxi, as Fuxi and Nuwa are basically Shiva and Kali or Mahakala and Mahakali the serpent deities. You'll noticed that it states the researchers connecting Fuxi to being "Enoch" and "Noah". Well, in the Emerald Tablets Thoth is Enoch, and when instructed to get the Atlanteans in the ship and fly to Egypt, this is basically the Noah story in this version. They are really one and the same basically. Fuxi and Nuwa are Serapis and Persephone as the Gods of the Underworld linked to Osiris and Isis. They are the Nagas who carry the symbolism of the compass and ruler, thus instructors and inventors of writing and language to agriculture and such. Basically, Oannes and Dagon who came from the seas. Speaking of Dagon, it states in the Yellow Emperor page this segment: "Ye Shuxian has also associated the Yellow Emperor with bear legends common across northeast Asia people as well as the Dangun legend."
Now, let's look at the Dangun Legend as they state "Tan'gun":
Tan'gun (Korean:단군;Hanja:檀君;RR:Dangun;pronounced[tan.ɡun]), also known as Tan'gun Wanggŏm (단군왕검;檀君王儉;[tan.ɡunwaŋ.ɡʌm]), was the legendary founder and first king of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.[1]He founded the first kingdom around the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. He is said to be the "grandson of heaven",[2]"son of a bear",[3]and to have founded the first kingdom in 2333 BC. The earliest recorded version of the Tan'gun legend appears in the 13th-century Samguk yusa, which purportedly cites Korea's lost historical record, Gogi (고기;古記;lit.'Ancient Record') and China's Book of Wei.[4]However, there is no records related to Tan'gun in the current surviving version of the Book of Wei. Koreans celebrate Tan'gun's founding of Gojoseon, Korea's first dynasty, on 3 October as a national holiday known as National Foundation Day (Gaecheonjeol). It is a religious anniversary started by Daejongism (대종교;大倧教), worshipping Tan'gun. Many Korean historians regard Tan'gun and Tengri as being etymologically identical.
In Korean mythology, Tan'gun's ancestry legend begins with his grand father Hwanin (환인;桓因), the "Lord of Heaven". Hwanin had a son, Hwanung, who yearned to live on the earth among the valleys and the mountains. Hwanin permitted Hwanung and 3,000 followers to descend onto Taebaeksan (written as Myohyang-san in samguk sagi, but now believed to be Paektu Mountain),[8]where Hwanung founded Sinsi (신시;神市, "City of God"). Along with his ministers of clouds, rain and wind, he instituted laws and moral codes and taught humans various arts, medicine, and agriculture.[9]Legend attributes the development of acupuncture and moxibustion to Tan'gun.[10]
A tiger and a bear prayed to Hwanung that they might become human. Upon hearing their prayers, Hwanung gave them twenty cloves of garlic and a bundle of mugwort, ordering them to eat only this sacred food and remain out of the sunlight for 100 days. The tiger gave up after about twenty days and left the cave. However, the bear persevered and was transformed into a woman. The bear and the tiger are said to represent two tribes that sought the favor of the heavenly prince.[11]
The bear-woman, Ungnyeo, was grateful and made offerings to Hwanung. However, she lacked a husband, and soon became sad and prayed beneath a "divine birch" tree (신단수;神檀樹;shindansu) to be blessed with a child. Hwanung, moved by her prayers, took her for his wife and soon she gave birth to a son named Tan'gun Wang'gŏm.
Tan'gun ascended to the throne, built the walled city of Asadal situated near Pyongyang (the location is disputed), and called the kingdom Joseon—referred to today as Gojoseonso as not to be confused with the later kingdom of Joseon that was established roughly 2000 years later. He then moved his capital to Asadal on Mount Paegak or Mount Gunghol. Tan'gun's biography reflected the interest of the people of Dangun Joseon (Gojoseon) at the time in establishing the legitimacy of the kingship of Gojoseon and the dignity of the country. The king of Gojoseon conducted a ritual in honor of his ancestral god every year. Soon, the myth of Tan'gun was the political ideology of the Gojoseon period, and the ritual had a function of political assembly.
Now, based on this segment details the Gods coming down from Heaven and establishing their Kingdom on Earth. This is pretty much the story of Thoth and the Atlanteans coming to Earth and establishing the cults around the Earth. Even the Black King Kayra Khan of the Turkic Mongols was said to have come to Earth from Heaven and had established his Kingdom in the underworld (same as Erlik Khan). Based from the legends of the Dragon Gods and how they established their rulership over the whole world is on par, as the descendants would have the dragon blood linking to Kingship. Then comes the term Dangun or Tan'gun, which sounds like the Chinese Tiangou and the Japanese Tengu which means "Heavenly dog". This accounts to the Gods of Sirius coming forth and of course, becoming inventors to primitive people on Earth. Fuxi and Shennong are one and the same deity, all connecting to Chiyou and even Huangdi, as was theorized to be the God of the Underworld and having the symbolism towards Serpents, whereas Shangdi is the God of the Heavens. Huangdi is also linked to Saturn as well. Here states this excerpt:
"Also disagreeing with Yang Kuan's hypothesis, Sarah Allan finds it unlikely that such a popular myth as the Yellow Emperor's could have come from a taboo character.[42]She argues instead that pre-Shang "'history'," including the story of the Yellow Emperor, "can all be understood as a later transformation and systematization of Shang mythology."[49]In her view, Huangdi was originally an unnamed "lord of the underworld" (or the "Yellow Springs"), the mythological counterpart of the Shang sky deity Shangdi.[42]At the time, Shang rulers claimed that their mythical ancestors, identified with "the [ten] suns, birds, east, life, [and] the Lord on High" (i.e., Shangdi), had defeated an earlier people associated with "the underworld, dragons, west." After the Zhou dynasty overthrew the Shang dynasty in the eleventh century BC, Zhou leaders reinterpreted Shang myths as meaning that the Shang had vanquished a real political dynasty, which was eventually named the Xia dynasty.[50]By Han times – as seen in Sima Qian's account in the Shiji– the Yellow Emperor, who as lord of the underworld had been symbolically linked to the Xia, had become a historical ruler whose descendants were thought to have founded the Xia."
The Shang defeating an earlier civilization that was associated with dragons and the underworld as Huangdi (though this is from this person's perspective) is similar to the Aryan invasion story as the Aryans were in conflict with the Dasyus/Nagas. So, to recap they don't know who the Xia actually are, and if Shangdi was started by the Shang dynasty, to which are then overthrown by the Zhou thus changing the idea of Shangdi being the embodiment of Heaven in its stead. It seems that the people don't have proper History due to the myths of Huangdi as they think they are originated from this person's civilization. Then what's more surprising is that they state Shangdi to being worshiped "prior" to the Shang and Xia by Emperor Shun who lived between 2294 BC and 2184 BC whereas the Documentary (as stated in the beginning of this Chapter) states Shun worshiping Shangdi in 2250 BC. The earliest "in general" for the Shang Dynasty is 1600 to 1046 BC. Then the Xia is supposedly 2070 to 1600 BC. But no one knows their true History as some are based on Myths, some writings and accounts. History in China is not absolute.
Now, based from the website "psu.edu" sites of Penn state, details on "Human Sacrifice during Shang Dynasty" as they would perform human sacrifice to Shangdi, whether through burial human sacrifice, decapitating the victims to human blood extraction which they state is unknown (he burial ground sacrifice is also what the Egyptians would do as well). This speaks all too well on the Saturnian practices of bloodletting towards the Gods like Shiva, Murugan, the Vegetarian and Taoist festivals as the devotees would cut themselves. It's shown in the Bible that God told the people not to get into this, as this practice is really towards Baal and Ashtoreth. We see this in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. So, it's noted that it may not have anything towards the God of heaven, unless there was later corruption. Anyway, the issues are the timelines on when Shangdi was worshiped, because it's stated that Shangdi was worshiped by Emperor Shun prior to the Shang Dynasty, and I wonder what Dynasty was this particularly. I would have thought Shangdi would be named after the Shang, but now it's not certain. Perhaps due to the dialects or names that had changed overtime, but again, the History is shown to not be absolute. Here, the information states Shun was of the Three Sovereign and five Emperors and would offer animal sacrifices to Shangdi. Based from this excerpt states this in the Wiki:
"After ascending to the throne, Shun offered sacrifices to the god Shang Di (上帝), as well as to the hills, rivers, and the host of spirits (神).[7]Then he toured the eastern, the southern, the western, and the northern parts of the country; in each place he offered burnt-offering to Heaven at each of the four peaks (Mount Tai, Mount Huang, Mount Hua and Mount Heng), sacrificed to the hills and rivers, set in accord the seasons, months, and days, established uniform measurements of length and capacities, and reinforced ceremonial laws.[8] Shun divided the land into twelve provinces, raising altars upon twelve hills, and deepening the rivers.[9]Shun dealt with Four Perils: banishing Gong gong to You Prefecture, confining Huan-dou (驩兜) on Mount Chong (宗山), executing or imprisoning Guna prisoner till his death on Feather Mountain(羽), and driving the San-Miao into San-Wei.[10]Gun's son, Yu(禹), was subsequently appointed as minister of work(共工) to govern the water and the land."
Here states interesting quotes of 12 altars upon 12 mountains as if it's based on the 12 tribes of Israel. Then states he banished Gong Gong. Now, Gong Gong was the water serpent with red hair and black skin who battled Zhurong the fire God. It's not noted if this is a person as it indicates being banished or based on the mythos. This becomes a problem because this is called "euhemerism" as either the historical person is exaggerated as a God or vice versa:
"In the fields of philosophy and mythography, euhemerism is an approach to the interpretation of mythology in which mythological accounts are presumed to have originated from real historical events or personages. Euhemerism supposes that historical accounts become myths as they are exaggerated in the retelling, accumulating elaborations and alterations that reflect cultural mores. It was named after the Greek mythographer Euhemerus, who lived in the late 4th century BC. In the more recent literature of myth, such as Bulfinch's Mythology, euhemerism is termed the "historical theory" of mythology."
In any case, there are theories that he was a descendant of Huangdi the Yellow Emperor, to whom don't have any accurate idea of the dates of the previous civilizations. Again, euhemerism is shown a lot in Chinese History, and has much confusion based on Godhood and Emperors. This tells me that despite the Communist destroying the ancient History and books (which is done deliberately as to hide who they were) this would bring every account to the black nations that were there in the land "prior" to the East Modern Asians. Let's recap on these segments:
SERPENT-GODS OR DRAGONS IN CHINESE HISTORY:
"While the serpent-god shows up in the form of the dragon in Chinese history and mythology, there is no doubt that we are dealing with the winged, legged serpent or Naga of the Hindus. China chose the dragon as the national emblem for profound reasons. They believed that the Celestial Dragon was the father of the First Dynasty of Divine Emperors and as a result the dragon’s pictorial emblem became regarded as inspiring divine beneficence to the land of China."
"According to Chinese history, Asian dragons were present at the Creation and shared the world with mankind. Like the Western serpent, the dragon was linked with the development of Man; and it was the dragon that taught him the essential arts such as how to make fire, how to weave nets for fishing, and how to make music."
"The Chinese dragon was unrivaled in wisdom and its power to confer blessings and as a result came to symbolize that most beneficent of men, the Emperor who was believed to have dragon blood. This affinity with the dragon is shown by the imperial accoutrements: the Emperor sat on a dragon throne, rode in a dragon boat, and even slept in a dragon bed."
"According to Charles Gould in his classic work on Chinese mythology, the belief in the existence and friendship of the dragon is thoroughly woven into the life of early Chinese history. The Yih King, the most ancient of Chinese books, whose origins are cloaked in mystery, describes the days when man and dragon lived together peaceably and even intermarried, how the dragons came to represent the Emperor and the throne of China, and how the Chief Dragon had its abode in the sky. In the year 212 BC, the Emperor Tsin-Shi Hwang-Ti ordered all ancient books destroyed and the persecution of learned men for a period of four years."
States this in the Sacred Text website from Charles Gould:
THE CHINESE DRAGON.
"WE now approach the consideration of a country in which the belief in the existence of the dragon is thoroughly woven into the life of the whole nation. Yet at the same time it has developed into such a medley of mythology and superstition as to materially strengthen our conviction of the reality of the basis upon which the belief has been founded, though it involves us in a mass of intricate perplexities in connection with the determination of its actual period of existence.
There is no country so conservative as China, no nation which can boast of such high antiquity, as a collective people permanently occupying the same regions, and preserving records of their polity, manners, and surroundings from the earliest date of their occupation of the territory which still remains the centre of their civilization; and there is none in which dragon culture has been more persistently maintained down to the present day. Its mythologies, histories, religions, popular stories, and proverbs, all teem with references to a mysterious being who has a physical nature and spiritual attributes. Gifted with an accepted form, which he has the supernatural power of casting off for the assumption of others, he has the power of influencing the weather, producing droughts or fertilizing rains at pleasure, of raising tempests and allaying them. Volumes could be compiled from the scattered legends which everywhere abound relating to this subject; but as they are, for the most part, like our mediaeval legends, echoes of each other, no useful purpose would be served by doing so, and I therefore content myself with drawing, somewhat copiously, from one or two of the chief sources of information."
"As, however, Chinese literature is but little known or valued in England, it is desirable that I should devote some space to the consideration of the authority which may be fairly claimed for the several works from which I shall make quotations, bearing on the Chinese testimony of the past existence, and date of existence, of the dragon and other so-called mythical animals. Incidental comments on natural history form a usual part of every Chinese geographical work, but collective descriptions of animals are rare in the literature of the present, and almost unique in that of the past. We are, therefore, forced to rely on the side-lights occasionally afforded by the older classics, and on one or two works of more than doubtful authenticity which claim, equally with them, to be of high antiquity. The works to which I propose to refer more immediately are the Yih King, the Bamboo Books, the Shu King, the ’Rh Ya, the Shan Hai King, the Păn Ts’ao Kang Muh, and the Yuen Kien Léi Han. As it is well known that all the ancient books, with the exception of those on medicine, divination, and husbandry, were ordered to be destroyed in the year B.C. 212 by the Emperor Tsin Shi Hwang Ti, under the threatened penalty for non-compliance of branding and labour on the walls for four years, and that a persecution of the literati was commenced by him in the succeeding year, which resulted in the burying alive in pits of four hundred and sixty of their number, it may be reasonably objected that the claims to high antiquity which some of the Chinese classics put forth, are, to say the least, doubtful, and, in some instances, highly improbable.
This question has been well considered by Mr. Legge in his valuable translation of the Chinese Classics. He points out that the tyrant died within three years after the burning of the books, and that the Han dynasty was founded only eleven years after that date, in B.C. 201, shortly after which attempts were commenced to recover the ancient literature. He concludes that vigorous efforts to carry out the edict would not be continued longer than the life of its author—that is, not for more than three years—and that the materials from which the classics, as they come down to us, were compiled and edited in the two centuries preceding the Christian era, were genuine remains, going back to a still more remote period."
THE "YIH KING" OR "YH KING."
The Yih King is one of those books specially excepted from the general destruction of the books. References in it to the dragon are not numerous, and will be found as quotations in the extracts from the large encyclopedia Yuen Kien Léi Han, given hereafter. This work has hitherto been very imperfectly understood even by the Chinese themselves, but the recent researches of M. Terrien de la Couperie lead us to suppose that our translations have been imperfect, from the fact that many symbols have different significations in the present day to those which they had in very ancient times, and that a special dictionary of archaic meanings must be prepared before an accurate translation can be arrived at, a consummation which may shortly be expected from his labours. I find in my notes, taken from the manuscript of a lecture given before the Ningpo Book Club in 1870, by the Rev. J. Butler, of the Presbyterian Mission, that "the way in which the dragon came to represent the Emperor and the Throne of China *is accounted for in the Yih King as follows:—
The chief dragon has his abode in the sky, and all clouds and vapours, winds and rains are under his control. He can send rain or withhold it at his pleasure, and hence all vegetable life is dependent on him. So the Emperor, from his exalted throne, watches over the interests of his people, and confers on them those temporal and spiritual blessings without which they would perish." I abstain from dwelling on this or any other passages in the Yih King, pending the translation promised by M. De la Couperie, the nature of whose views on it are condensed in the note attached, being extracts from his papers on the subject.
So, they state the Chief dragon has power over the sky, rain and such. This is likened to the Mesoamerican serpent Gods who have the same power as Quetzalcoatl who is Kukulkan and Tohil the Dragon God. Is this really based on the Dragon God? Even God in the Bible says the same thing in Deuteronomy 11:
15And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
First let's see what the Wiki states on Huracan:
Huracán("one legged"), often referred to as U Kʼux Kaj, the "Heart of Sky",[2]is a Kʼicheʼ Maya god of wind, storm, fire and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity.[3]He also caused the Great Flood after the second generation of humans angered the gods. He supposedly lived in the windy mists above the floodwaters and repeatedly invoked "earth" until land came up from the seas. His name, understood as 'One-Leg', suggests god Kof Postclassic and Classic Maya iconography, a deity of lightning with one human leg,[4]and one leg shaped like a serpent. God K is commonly referred to as Bolon Tzacab or Kʼawiil and was a god associated with power, creation, and lightning.[5]The name may ultimately derive from huracan, a Carib word,[6]and the source of the words hurricane and or can (European windstorm).
Now let's see Chaac in the Wiki:
Chaac is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder, and lightning. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds, causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among the Aztecs....Chaac is usually depicted with a human body showing reptilian or amphibian scales, and with a non-human head evincing fangs and a long, pendulous nose. In the Classic style, a shell serves as his ear ornament. He often carries a shield and a lightning axe, the axe being personified by a closely related deity, K'awiil, called Bolon Dzacab in Yucatec.
Then K'awiil states this:
Kʼawiil, in the Post-Classic codices corresponding to God K, is a Maya deity identified with power, creation, and lightning.[1]He is characterized by a zoomorphic head, with large eyes, long, upturned snout and attenuated serpent foot.[2]As a creator god, K'awiil usually has a torch, stone celt, or cigar coming out of his forehead that symbolizes the spark of life. One of his legs does not end in a foot but in a snake with an open mouth, from which another being can emerge. As lightning and power personified, K'awiil is often carried like an axe by rain gods or as a sceptre by Maya rulers.
Then based on Sugaar states this:
In Basque mythology, Sugaar (also Sugar, Sugoi, Suarra, Maju) is the male half of a pre-Christian Basque deity associated with storms and thunder. He is normally imagined as a dragon or serpent. Unlike his female consort, Mari, there are very few remaining legends about Sugaar. The basic purpose of his existence is to periodically join with Mari in the mountains to generate the storms.
In one myth Sugaar seduces a Scottish princess in the village of Mundaka to father the mythical first Lord of Biscay, Jaun Zuria. This legend is believed to be a fabrication made to legitimize the Lordship o fBiscay as a separate state from Navarre, because there is no historical account of such a lord. Only the fact that the delegates of Mundaka were attributed with the formal privilege of being the first to vote in the Biltzar(Parliament) of the province may look as unlikely indication of the partial veracity of this legend.
Etymology:
The name Suga(a)r is derived from suge (serpent) and-ar (male), thus "male serpent".[1]The suggestions of a formation based on su(fire) and gar(flame), thus yielding "flame of fire" are considered folk etymology.[1]
Sugoi, another name of the same deity, has two possible interpretations, either a suge+o[h]i (former, "old serpent") or su+goi ("high fire").There is no likely etymology for the third name of this god, Maju.
Local legends on Sugaar:
- In Ataun he is said to have two homes: in the caves of Amunda and Atarreta. He is said to have been witnessed crossing the sky in form of fire-sickle, what is considered presage of storms. In this area is also said that Sugaar punishes the children that disobey their parents.
- In Azkoitia Sugaar is clearly identified with Maju. He meets Mari on Fridays (the day of the akelarre or sabbat), conceiving then the storms.
- In Betelu Sugaar is known as Suarra and considered a demon. There they say that he travels
- through the sky in the shape of a fireball, between the mountains Balerdi and Elortalde.
Then this states in the Wiki: Herensuge is the name for a mythical dragon in the Basque language. In Basque mythology, dragons appear sparingly, sometimes with seven heads. Herensuge often also appear in the form of a serpent.[1]The seven heads were believed to be the offspring of the Herensuge dragon. When the little dragons were fully grown, they would fall off their mother's head. Only the god Sugaar is associated with this creature but more often with a serpent.
Then comes the story of the "One legged One" in the Red Horn story. This story details some interesting connections to the fall of the Devil.
"The first incarnation of the chief of the devils, Herešgúnina, was called "One Legged One," since Earth Maker had created him with just one leg, and that was flat.1Others say that Earth Maker, from his place atop the sky, made him as the first man. When he was finished, he set him by the sun at its zenith to dry, but the excessive heat caused one of his legs to crack and fall off. Yet others say that the Earth maker dropped him, and the leg broke off when he hit the earth.2
Originally, he lived with his adopted sister in a hill after the fashion of Water spirits. She was abducted by buffalo because she allowed herself to be fooled by Trickster while One Legged One was away looking for a wife. The buffalo squeezed her waist so thin by carrying her between their horns that One Legged One made her the spirit chief of the ants.
It was One Legged One under the name Wareksankeka (< Wareksągéga,"He whose Upper Leg has been Cut [Off]."), who opposed Bladder, killing all of his brothers except the youngest, whom he whipped with a thorn bush. Bladder, whom Earth maker created to overcome the evil spirits plaguing mankind, hunted down One Legged One and eventually killed him by smashing him to pieces with a single kick,5or by pushing his body aside after beheading him. The youngest brother, who wounded One Legged One, turned out to be Morning Star.6As was only known to a few, when Bladder pushed One Legged One's body to the side during their beheading context, his head became the solar disk, which continually rebounds from east to west.
The story of the Yhi King on the Dragon God being the Chief symbolism of China. In the Book "Flying serpents and Dragons: Mankind's reptilian past" details this excerpt: The Yih King, the most ancient of Chinese books, whose origins are cloaked in mystery, describes the days when man and dragon lived together peaceably and even intermarried, how the dragons came to represent the Emperor and the throne of China, and how the Chief Dragon had its abode in the sky."
So, they state when mankind and Dragon lived together and thus would intermingle? This sounds like the Book of Enoch as the Angels would live amongst the men, but as these Book burnings took place, it was to cover up the origin of the Dragon Gods. Below is Lil Naz X music video "call me by your name" depicting the serpent with 3 eyes.
Here is an Excerpt from one of Wesley Swift's sermons on the Dragon God Lucifer: "Races of the Earth and their differences":
"And we can prove the great antiquity which is involved here. In fact the coming of the Negroes ties into the Ancient Mythology of the Sumerians. They talk about battles and struggles in the sky, and how Negroes came in as workers and warriors of the god called the Battle god of the heavens, or Lucifer as you know him in your theology."
"And in the theology of the Chinese he was referred to as the Dragon god. Now: there are some things which I think are important for people to know. It taxes some people mentally to think, but it is important that there are some things that they should know. I call this to your attention: the Scripture clearly indicates that in periods of time in the past that there were great catastrophes which swept the earth." "And when you read in the Book of Genesis: 'God created the heavens and the earth', it doesn't put a time element on that creation. The second verse of Genesis says: 'The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.'
"Void means aftermath of destruction. Webster calls it the aftermath of destruction by Divine hands. Early theology recognized that there had been an early creation which had been destroyed, or had passed into catastrophe, and was re-altered even before the Genesis story of recreation, and the account of God preparing the earth for Adam-man. This is why in Genesis 1:28 states to "replenish the earth" meaning to do it again. So, if that is the case then there was an ancient war between one race against another that wiped out everything."
"There is something more significant here about the background of the earth. We have inside the Bible an identity of Lucifer. And you will note that at that time he is referred to as the Dragon. This symbol of the Dragon is one of the emblems of Lucifer, and was even described by the Sumerians as well as the Ancient Chinese as accompanying the great heavenly boat of the Dragon god. So, you see they had vehicles which came in from space with symbols painted on them, and they were identified with these symbols."
"Out of the records of what their archaeologists have unearthed from their earliest cities comes their oldest traditions. And they talk about their being the children of the Dragon, and how the Dragon god came. They tell of the change which came upon the people of Asia...after the Dragon god came. They talk about Ancient Deities, and the change of Deities. They talk about a great catastrophe and mighty struggles, and how part of the earth plunged beneath the waters. When they talk about how the earth plunged beneath the waters they are talking about how Ancient MU, and the Ancient wicked continent of Pan slipped beneath the waters of the Pacific."
"Strangely this is to be found in records, and Ancient maps traced into stone which reaches into the high mountains...the Andes. Where the people that were the actual creators and constructors of some of the Ancient Inca civilizations far out in surpassing the Indians who occupied it later...these people talked about this high civilization, and they had maps which related to roads and vast extensive lands that were far to the west of them. By the scale of their maps would have extended across most of the Pacific Ocean. The strange thing is that emblems which relate to worship of the Dragon gods, and these maps are found in the high mountains of the Andes, and tie right in with symbols of worship found in Asia, in India, and found also in the Islands of the sea. For on Borneo, Sumatra, and Java we have remnants, and artifacts which show that Ancient civilizations flourished there."
This depicts Thoth as the Dragon God coming down from the Heavens
So, based on understanding the Dragon Gods and who they are is shown that these are the Black nations that were in the land and their symbol is the dragon, not these current Chinese that merely adapted as their symbol. Though I have seen the term "dragon faced" amongst most Chinese as they would look like the black people in Africa and elsewhere, this basically tells me that there were intermingling as the "Yhi King book" states on the Chinese were intermingling with the dragon race, but as we identify the dragon race, we can conclude this strange mystery. Just as I listed the Kitchen God to being the fire God, is shown to be the Dragon God who is the wrathful deity Fudo Myoo. But when you trace Fudo Myoo back to Acala, it's shown that this is Shiva who is Mahakala. So, based on what Godfrey Higgins details on Marco Polo describing the Temple of Heaven as Shangdi, and the idol called Natigai is shown that Shangdi would be indicated as the embodiment of Heaven as the Zhou Dynasty states, and Natigai is Mahakala/Shiva as the God of this world who is the Red Dragon.
Now based on the bloodletting sacrifices that was said to be done towards Shangdi, I find the bloodletting practice to be towards Saturn, who is the Black God worshiped throughout the whole world. It's shown in Christianity that the mortification of the flesh is based on Jesus Christ as taking the whips, but this goes way back to India as Godfrey Higgins states on the Buddha doing the same thing wash away the sins for mankind. However, it doesn't stop there, for the Buddha is Krishna as Christ, is the Black God who is the Nommo/Chitauri or the Dragon God that fell down from Heaven and brought this practice to the whole world. The God that died on the cross is based on the Dragon on the cross. This is why when J.A. Rogers had detailed the people of Krishna who are the black nations that were in India and China, had their religions and practices. So, when we see what's been done in Christianity and other religions is similar practice, then we can see how it's been done in those lands along with the phallic worship to Shiva. Shiva is the God of the black nations in those lands. The black people's symbol is the dragon.
Then based on human sacrifices in the Bible, it's already known in the story of Jephtah that he had made a promise to God after defeating a nation, that he would sacrifice whatever comes through the door of his house, thus his only daughter comes through to meet him. Based on Jephtah's daughter being a virgin and being sacrificed shows that there is something off about this particular God, but is this Shangdi as the Article states that this God was done the same way? It's shown in Numbers 31, when it details the Israelites defeating the Midianites and gathering the goods, that there were virgin girls taken as well. Then a certain portion of the virgin girls was given to the lord apparently, but nothing is known what happen to them, thus implying they may have also been sacrificed. So, what's the truth here? I have seen Mr Mythos on Youtube detailing these accounts on "Is Yahweh in the Bible a dragon? Here he does excellent research on the strange parallels to the God in the Bible to a Dragon. He details the snout of God connecting to the dragon to even God being fire breathing. Based some of these verses states this:
Psalms 18:8:
5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.6In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Then we can compare this to Job 41 on Leviathan:
1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15Hisscalesare his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
It's rather interesting that this Dragon called Leviathan is the one who came against Michael the Archangel, as God tells Job about the battle. Even this verse Isaiah 51:9 states this: “Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?”
Now, I have already identified three eyed Shiva as the Red Dragon in the Bible, as the Israelites were apparently led by this God instead of Michael the Archangel, but I have to say how much of the Bible has been changed, because one case states God telling the people to destroy the pillars and not to get into the worship of Baal and Ashtoreth and yet, those Gods are identified as Osiris and Isis who is Shiva and Kali, Tammuz and Semiramis etc. They are the Dragon gods in the land, and yet the God of fire is described as the wrathful deity who pertains to the dragon symbolism. For example, the fiery serpents that was sent against the Israelites by this God is shown to be the Red Dragon, as Moses puts up the red Serpent on the pole and the people to look upon shall be healed. This is Leviathan who is Mahakala the God of fire as the Bible states.
So, based on Mr Mythos statements on the Dragon loving the smell of flesh of the sacrifices, well, does this mean this God is the Dragon? Just as I had stated in Thoth is Enoch: Saturn and the black cube worship and symbolism", I mentioned that I find the descriptions of animal sacrifices to be bloody and for this to be done every day for the sins of the people seems to be a lot. Even Job was stated to always do animal sacrifices because he would never know if his children had sinned against God by thought or deed. Then I come to find this information on Erlik Khan as he would demand animal sacrifices, as if this practice pertains to this being who is Satan, seems to be the case. Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and even the Vodun religions still do animal sacrifice towards a deity or spirit, so how is it any different than this particular God in the Bible. The case for the animal sacrifice to which is based on washing away the sins, I find still pertains to Dagon who is Bacchus and Hermes. This is based on the black God on the cross as this is the serpent, along with the phallic pillar who is Shiva.
Now going back to the Documentary on Shangdi, if they were connecting the God of Heaven to the animal sacrifices, then it may be the case, but I find it not true because this tells me that this is based on Mahakala. Considering the amount of vague information on Shangdi to going back further than the Shang Dynasty only tells me they don't know who they were really doing the animal sacrifices to. The God of fire in the Bible who is described as the wrathful God and called a consuming fire is the Red Dragon in the Bible and is Thoth who came down with his angels after their defeat from Michael. If they state they were doing it to Shangdi, then this would really be Shiva. He is the three eyed Shiva the God of wisdom who is Fudo Myoo, and based on deconstructing who "Natigai" is from Marco Polo description, tells me that the animal sacrifices were based on this God. Again, Shangdi means God, and can be distinct from Xuan tian Shangdi as another type of deity.
I do see some images of Xuan Tian Shangdi as having three eyes as well and is shown as black sometimes as the direction of North. The color black represents the North as the constellation of the Tortoise and serpent. There are four directions based on the four mythic beast, as the west is the white tiger, the south is the Phoenix, the East is the Dragon and the North is the tortoise and serpent. Now, there are different accounts and origins based on this deity, but what stood out was the story of Xuan tian Shangdi being born from a woman who couldn't conceive a child and thus was apparently pregnant for 14 months (as some stories states). Then in childhood was stated to have the ability to discern and learn on a high level like the Scholars, to which is basically the life of Jesus. He lived in a Kingdom and became an ascetic monk who became highly spiritual. There are some theories that he was born in a province in India or in China, but based on this deity becoming human is similar to the story of Vishnu becoming human to live his life as Krishna, to even the Buddha. This is the story of a black god Thoth who lived his life and died on the cross as this legend of Xuan tian Shangdi is the Buddha, Tammuz, Krishna and Dagon who died on the cross going back to the Nommo. This would obviously come from the black nations, as their God has many epithets throughout the whole world. Jesus Christ, Horus, Krishna, Buddha, Prometheus, Mithra, Orpheus, Dionysus/Bacchus, to Hermes, Thoth and Agni. There is also Indra's cross as well, but I find this story as the God who robbed something from the Hindu Garden of Paradise is based on the theft of Prometheus as is based on Matarisvan connecting to Agni. Agni was based on the cross connecting to the lamb symbolism of Christ or Krishna and Hermes. Now, based on the lamb symbolism along with the sins of mankind, this is shown to be based on Dagon who is Shiva connecting to Osiris who is the "Lord of Sirius" and is the Dragon of the Cross.
Then I also see the story of how Heidi who was sent by God to battle the demon that was ravaging the Heavens which is the story of Michael the archangel battling the Dragon God. They state that Heidi as the mysterious black god that defeats the demon is Xuan Tian Shangdi, and yet, when learning about who the identity of the demon King turns out to be the Black God Shiva, who is the considered God of the Nagas who are the Titans. This shows that there were changes as to the story of Indra who is the Garuda that defeated the black God Shiva to whom when they came down had brought the cross to the whole world. Again, there is so much corruption because the Garuda is of the Aryans not of the Nagas, and is the one who defeated the Dragon God who is a black God. The Black God of the seven headed serpent symbolism was the original God of India, so I find how they amalgamated and changed the Gods in the same way as the Hindus. Now, I don't mind Shangdi to being the embodiment of Heaven as referred to the Almighty Creator who created all things, however the whole world is into the worship of the dragon God on the cross amongst its epithets.
Now, based on Ancient Aliens doing the segment on "Alien communication" stating Abraham being told by this particular God to sacrifice his son was said to be a different God while the angel that stopped him was a totally different being who was against it. In the Bible states God wanted to test Abraham, but the question is the "idea" of human sacrifice tells you what kind of God it is and how this has been done before. There were two Gods (or more) being dealt with in the Bible and the real God wouldn't need animal sacrifice for appeasement. That's why when reading the Bible, it's noted that Michael the Archangel is not the wrathful God of fire entity in Exodus and has a totally different demeanor, whereas the people have the God with the black skin and red hair. This is why Fudo Myoo/Acala is originally depicted as having negroid features and curly hair like an African, and this connects to the Dragon God Shiva. What threw me off was how the Japanese had amalgamated the image of the bird god with that of Fudo Myoo (who is Shiva) whereas the Garuda is really based on Indra as Michael, though the Japanese do not do the bloodletting practices as the Chinese and other Asian neighbors do in these strange festivals.
Now, the Yhi King stating the people intermingling with the Dragons details that the people were intermingling with the Nagas who are the Black people. It becomes obvious that the Nagas were very influential to the whole world, and the Dragon was their symbol not the Chinese people. When deconstructing the Gods, it's shown that Shiva is Fuxi, Shennong, and due to the Chinese stating that their culture was based on the Dragon, then of course these Gods are Thoth and his people who are black people. Whether they state the Yellow Emperor to being the one to start the Chinese civilization, still reveals this to be Thoth who is the Buddha, Hermes, Shiva to Dagon and the Dragon Gods. But what surprises me the most is that Ancient Chinese History is rather obscure, especially on the accounts of Shangdi coming from either the Shang or before the Shang Dynasty, as much of these things are based on legends and writings from certain Scholars which is why there is so much of reliance towards these writings, but based on Shangdi as Heaven or God of Heaven, I find this to be the case of the embodiment of Heaven as "Tian" and the Almighty Creator. So, were these Chinese people already in the land as these stories came about or were the Black people there already? Based on these records would detail the coming of Dragon boats coming from the sky and such, and yet they weren't there at all in the land. There was a migration of the people now called Asians (who are the Aryans) and there are stories and legends of the original inhabitants in the land that supports that these ancient people were black. In the Philippines there are certain festivals based on the people coloring themselves black and reenacting the original black tribes that they had encountered when they came to the Islands. I have seen a video on a Cambodian detailing the original inhabitants were black in the land. It's noted that the black nations symbol has always been the dragon before the East Asian people came into the land.
