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. |