. The mythology of all races. Fig. 26. Hsiang Chun be destroyed, thus turning the green hillsides to a dull brown{che ch^i shan). (4) Ssu Ming is the arbiter of life and death, the assistantof High Heaven in controlling human events, the protector ofvirtue and enemy of evil. In this elegy Ssu Ming is dividedinto two beings, one senior and one junior, thus giving rise tothe wrong interpretation that the two stellar deities Shang Taiand Wen Chang are referred to. The division into senior andjunior arbiters is probably a poetic licence, in the same way, as 90 CHINESE MYTHOLOGY Hsiang Chiin is sep
. The mythology of all races. Fig. 26. Hsiang Chun be destroyed, thus turning the green hillsides to a dull brown{che ch^i shan). (4) Ssu Ming is the arbiter of life and death, the assistantof High Heaven in controlling human events, the protector ofvirtue and enemy of evil. In this elegy Ssu Ming is dividedinto two beings, one senior and one junior, thus giving rise tothe wrong interpretation that the two stellar deities Shang Taiand Wen Chang are referred to. The division into senior andjunior arbiters is probably a poetic licence, in the same way, as 90 CHINESE MYTHOLOGY Hsiang Chiin is separated from Hsiang Fu-jen in this elegy,though they are usually joined together under the one termHsiang Chiin. (5) Tung Chiin is the god of the sun rising in the East. (6) Ho Po is god of the Yellow River, according to thestatement of Chuang Tzu. He has the form of a man. Thisname seems interchangeable with that of the god of the waters,. Fig. 27. Hsiang Fu-jen Shui Shen, of the god of the fishes, Yii Po, and of two othergods of the waters called Feng I and Shui I. The poem underthis heading in these Nine Songs refers to a journey madeby Ho Po in company with a maiden who fell into the water andwas rescued by him and taken to the fish-scale house (yil linwu). (7) Shan Kuei is a demon of the mountains. Giles, in hisChinese Literature has translated this poem, the first part of GREAT NATIONAL HEROES 91 which describes the demon as follows: Methinks there is agenius of the hills, clad in wistaria, girdled with ivy, with smil-ing lips of witching mien, riding on the red pard, wild cats gal-loping in the rear, reclining in a chariot, with banners of cassia,cloaked with the orchid, girt with azalea, culling the perfume ofsweet flowers to leave behind a memory in the heart.
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