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Updated: May 26, 2025
Even though the fields be flooded, Ramman can cause thorns to grow instead of herbs. The same ideograph Im that signifies Ramman also means distress. When the failure of the crops brings in its wake hunger and desolation, it is the 'god of the clouds, the 'god of rain, the 'god of the overflow, whose wrath has thus manifested itself. When Ramman lets his voice resound, misfortune is at hand.
The Taoists claimed it as an important ingredient of the elixir of immortality. The Buddhists used it extensively to prevent drowsiness during their long hours of meditation. By the fourth and fifth centuries Tea became a favourite beverage among the inhabitants of the Yangtse-Kiang valley. It was about this time that modern ideograph Cha was coined, evidently a corruption of the classic Tou.
Temmu saw that if the work of compilation was abandoned solely to princely and official littérateurs, they would probably sacrifice on the altar of the ideograph much that was venerable and worthy to be preserved.
An ideograph does not make upon the Japanese brain any impression similar to that created in the Occidental brain by a letter or combination of letters dull, inanimate symbols of vocal sounds. To the Japanese brain an ideograph is a vivid picture: it lives; it speaks; it gesticulates.
The ideograph designating a 'star' and which is prefixed as a determinative to the names of stars, consists of the sign for god repeated three times; and in the case of those stars which are identified with particular deities, the simple determinative for god is employed.
Under that, again, is the symbol for the number 18; the decimal sign, and eight vertical strokes, Under that, again, is a hieroglyph of another sort, an ideograph representing a girl with a harp; and, beneath that, the symbol which always represented a dancing girl and also the royal symbol inclosed in a cartouch,
which is the feminine personal pronoun, sentus, meaning 'she'; and the first column is completed with the symbol for the ancient Egyptian verb, nehes, 'to awake, "And now we take the second column, which begins with the jackal ideograph expressing slyness or cleverness. Under it is the hieroglyph meaning 'to run away, 'to escape. And under that, Mr.
Burke, note carefully three modifying signs: first, that it is a couch or bed on which the figure is stretched, not the funeral couch, not the embalming slab; second, there is no mummy mask covering the face, and no mummy case covering the body; third, that under the recumbent figure is pictured an open mouth, not a closed one. "All these modify the ideograph, apparently representing death.
Knowledge came to them by action and the use of the physical sense. The hand is a symbol of action, power, ability; the door, of entering, initiation; the eye, of seeing, vision, evidence, illumination. Hence the ideograph formed by the collation of these symbols signifies, opening the door to see, i.e. enquiry.
Primarily, the ideograph Lil is used to designate a 'demon' in general, and En-lil is therefore the 'chief demon. Primitive as such a conception is, it points to some system of thought that transcends primitive Animism, which is characterized rather by the equality accorded to all spirits.
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