What are the Greek gods who are evil but not strange, bandits but not soil?

It is not appropriate to use the story of Liangshan hero to imagine the life of Olympic people. Liangshan lacks women and love, and several temptresses have easily fulfilled their heroic reputation of valuing righteousness over color. When it comes to martial arts, even Gongsun Sheng is only equal to the devil at the foot of Olympus. But anyway, the gods of Olympus are too much like bandits who take mountains as their kings-of course, they are not native, at least they are aristocrats, Lin Chong and Lu Junyi. If we are gentler, we can also imagine Olympus as a resort where some noble and romantic relatives of human beings live.

In contrast, the gods in China are more like gods. They have a strong sense of mission, like the great cause of creating man from the beginning, mending the sky and controlling water, but they don't want to be with that man and woman. They live in a nine-fold, illusory, which is simply a deliberate. It is said that immortals live close to humans, upstairs and downstairs, which can facilitate communication and have fun. However, when Emperor Zhuan Xu was in power, he didn't like this undifferentiated state very much, so he started a project of "Flying the Jedi to Heaven", which narrowed the distance between fairyland and human beings. Since then, people and gods have basically broken off. These gods are not human, do not eat human fireworks, and have no worldly desires. For example, as far as love is concerned, there is no goddess of love in China's mythology, only the god of marriage-Moon Old, which gives people the impression that retired cadres have opened a marriage agency, specializing in "yellow people falling in love". The love between God and God, and the love between God and people, are rare and have no emotional appeal. Imagine that Nuwa is the first snake, and the Queen Mother of the West kills people like hemp. How dare humans expect? Chang 'e, who is in a lower position, is romantic, but her husband is not related. Later, she simply fled from her husband and the world, preferring to live a cold life on the moon without the warmth and love of human beings. The Weaver Girl and the Seven Fairies-not strictly speaking, goddesses-could not bear the loneliness and went down to earth, and finally returned to the city like female educated youth or female college student village officials. How can there be a fairy couple? Most of the love we remember is caused by some third-rate fairies or even female ghosts, flower demons, basilisks or foxes. Even the "son of heaven", the emperor's private visit in disguise, molested civilians.

The poverty of human nature in China's mythology undoubtedly weakens the secular color of myth and makes us feel unfriendly. Ever since I was a child, I have known that there is a male WU GANG and a female Chang 'e on the moon. When I grow up, I think, how can there be no stories about such a big moon and lonely men and women? Chang 'e seems to have lost her voice, so she keeps a silent rabbit "as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything in the end" (from the line of The Big Bang Theory). WU GANG is sick alone, and obsessive-compulsive chopping down trees has become his whole life. It turns out that they landed on the moon in different myths. To borrow technical terms, these are two unrelated "independent myths". The story is clear and the morality is pure, but literature and human feelings are gone. Later, in the cultural traditions of "Machamp is distracted by silence" and "men and women are not close", the possibility and opportunities for their communication are even less. Thanks to the TV series "Pigs with Brilliant Spring", let's stop feeling sorry for Sister Chang 'e.

Cupid's victory

Angelica Kauffmann (174 1- 1807)

In Greek mythology, God and man are isomorphic and of the same sex, lacking the religion and majesty in heaven, and full of interest in life and humanistic spirit. It is secular, bright, romantic and lively. More like a picture of real life, it is simply a fable of real life (it is said that the word "myth" means "fable" in Greek). Edith. Hamilton once said, "Mythologists have turned a terrible world into a beautiful world." This is the "seduction" era. Humans occasionally appear in the vast world, relying on myths and even superstitions to establish an inevitable and rich connection between themselves and the world. The primitive world is particularly beautiful and vivid because of these humanistic gods, and it is still fascinating to think about it. Mr. Luo Niansheng, an expert in Greek literature in China, once described his imaginary Athens like this: "There is moonlight there every night." The moonlight in Greece should be particularly charming because the sky is full of gods and legends. A grass and a drop of dew on the ground all reflect the feelings of a little fairy, and the person in charge of the moon is a beautiful and strict goddess. That was when God was on earth. Girls in boudoir often lose themselves in a dizzy happiness, while shepherds have the opportunity to chat with fairies and fall in love. Monsters are not strange, the Sphinx is smart and reasonable; Sinnis, a robber and thief, was not the earliest expert on flexibility. Even the stories of punishment and suffering are not gloomy. Hell in Greek mythology reminds people of today's living room or office, not the afterlife. When we see Pluto fall in love in a hurry, we feel very gratified and happy, just like seeing our prude boss involved in a peach news, which makes people think that Greek hell is even more interesting than heaven.

We are still willing to imagine this. Unfortunately, astronomy and spaceships have destroyed our sense of awe, good mood and imagination. Powerful science has achieved "disenchantment", but since then "the world is no longer charming" (Schiller). Fairy tale "Peter? Pan said that when a person grows up and says that he doesn't believe in immortals, there is a fairy in the world who falls and dies. If according to Greek mythology, gods are immortal, then we would like to believe that these immortals moved to more distant planets to take refuge. Walking into today's mountains, there are no fairies, foxes, or even foxes, and plastic garbage is everywhere. Similar to monsters, the city is full of cars, and the only place that can bring miracles and new things is the electronic world. How desolate and boring a world without immortals and monsters is! From this, we also understand the significance of postmodernism "returning to charm": an organic ecological ethics, eager to return to the unity of man and nature. The magic games, fantasy literature and even movies that we are immersed in today all express this long-lasting and profound desire to "return to charm" in a certain sense.

However, the sacred light has not been extinguished. Every morning, when Leona eos (called Aurora in Roman mythology) appeared in the East with a rosy veil, Apollo, the sun god, still set out in his golden sun car and sprinkled immortal Hui Jin on the earth and mankind. The Oracle Bone Inscriptions of "knowing yourself" on the lintel of Delphi Temple is still the mission and strength that human beings can't let go of, and it is the end point that all disciplines can reach by any means.

In the dead of night, looking up at the still mysterious starry sky, we don't want to believe that Chang 'e's home has been colonized by the moon landing spacecraft. How can the twinkling stars not be gods? Poet Yu Guangzhong sighed in this moonlight: "The sky is very Greek tonight."