S^an Hai Jing

Charada China (Chifa`)

(cited by book[, chapter] & paragraph)

(cited by number)

   

5:11:21. "happy-horse"

1. horse

5:11:22. "horse-indigo" [= dragon-horse, scaly-bodied]

2. butterfly (scaly-winged)

5:11:22. human-fish

3. sailor

5:11:24. "tiger-head"

4. cat;

5:11:28. jaws

mouth

5:11:29. "she-whale"

5. nun

5:12:3. "turtle"

6. turtle

6:6. single foot

7. snail

6:17. dead

8. corpse

6:19. "round-ample"

9. elephant

6:20. fish

10. big fish

6:21. tigers

14. tiger

6:21. look-flesh

17. moon {Skt. candra-mas

(supply of meat -- p. 237)

"glowing meat"}

6:21. roar-cross (bullfrog ?)

22. toad

6:22. "pray steam"

23. steam

7:1. ruin-cover-bird

24. dove {over world-ruin, deluge}

7:3. jade half-disk

25. gem

7:8. eel

26. eel

7:18. shrimp

30. shrimp

7:19 horns on back {like Khimaira}

31. deer

7:21 long-leg (daddy-longleg spider ?)

35. spider

   

Anne Birrell (transl.): The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Penguin Books, 1999.

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