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>“Destroying deities perceived as ineffective and then creating new ones to replace them is a well-documented practice in ancient China,”
by gsf_emergency 2y ago
>“Destroying deities perceived as ineffective and then creating new ones to replace them is a well-documented practice in ancient China,”
- 082349872349872 2y agoIf kings fear losing the "mandate of heaven", should deities fear losing the 仁命? [I wonder —not entirely seriously— what position the stars may have been in during these circulations of deities?]
- gsf_emergency 2y agoThey definitely should! Also, like but also unlike the Greeks (or generally PIEs), at least equal numbers of chthonic -> terrestrial deities? (I suspect the Shu, like some CJKV (if not the majority of EastAsia) today, instinctively understand that local deities are subject to local influence..) Then one of the Herbert's further abstracted people/deities => prescience