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Myths and Man - Symbols - Cicada guo-guo; shan
Myths and Man - Symbols - Cicada guo-guo; shan The cicada, Homoptera, Cicadoidea is an insect that you may have seen its discarded shell after it has molted. Most people have never seen the insect for is spends most of its life underground. The sound of the cicada is probably most likely what one recalls in the cool of the summer evening hearing that sound that most identifies the cicada. The cicada with its large head and wide apart big eyes makes for an interesting monster. The unusual well-veined transparent wings make this insect shell very distinctive. In the western culture the cicada possibly best remembered in the Aesop folk tale 'The Cicada and The Ant.' The ant toils away saving up grain for the winter while the Cicada spends its time singing. The moral being work hard now and save singing can be had during hard times. The female cicada is said to taste good and is meatier than the male. In ancient times the cicada 'guo-guo; shan' in China was a symbol of immortality and life after death. Seeing the cicada shell and knowing that the cicada had flown away it was easy for the Chinese folk people to surmise that the cicada had died and was reborn to live another day. This concept of 'shed off the golden cicada skin' is a Chinese poetic concept of escaping from danger by living the shell to fool its enemies while escaping to safety. This same concept of shedding off is found in the Chinese classic "Journey to the West," where the protagonist Priest of Tang sheds off many illusions to reach enlightenment. To ensure the rebirth of the dead a jade cicada was placed in the dead person's mouth in parts of China. This would assure the return to this world. In other areas of China a representation of a cicada was a symbolizing that the person was an honorable and honest person. This is a series of informations on Myths and Man - Symbols it is a collection of myths and symbols I have been collecting and researching since 1968 when I first did a paper on 'Myth and Modern Day Man.' In 1968 I had an opportunity to speak with Arthur C. Clarke, who had written the short story that lead to the screenplay '2001: A Space Odyssey.' We discussed the myths of man and how myths would change man after 2001. I believe Myths and Metaphors are what moves civilization forward. jGibney (Never Published) Nature is Beautiful;
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