Fairy and Demon Gods

Chapter 55 [Southern Classics in China: Si Niu, God of Justice Meng Tu, Suspension, Jianmu, Ba Snake, and Horse]

【兕[sì] (shape like a cow, pale black, with one horn)】(Hainei Nanjing·Xiangshuinan)
Si is in the east of Shun's burial and south of Xiangshui.Its shape is like a cow, pale and black, with one horn.

Translation: Si is to the east of Emperor Shun's burial site, on the south bank of the Xiangshui River.Si is shaped like an ordinary cow, with a blue-black body and one horn.

【Meng Tu (Judicial God)】 (Hainei Nanjing·Danshanxi)
Xia Houqi's minister was called Meng Tu, who was in charge of the god Yuba.People bring lawsuits to Meng Tu's office, and those who have blood on their clothes will be held.It was born in Danshanxi.Danshan is in the south of Danyang, and Danyang belongs to it.

Translation: The courtier of King Qi of the Xia Dynasty was called Meng Tu, who was the god in charge of the lawsuit of Badi.People from Badi went to Meng Tu to file a complaint, and any of the complainants whose clothes were stained with blood was detained by Meng Tu.In this way, there will be no injustice and the virtue of living a good life.Meng Tu lived on a mountain to the west of Mount Dan.Danshan is to the south of Danyang, which is a territory of Ba.

【窫窳（Like a dragon head）】 (Hainei Nanjing·Ju Ruo Shui)

Yuyu Dragon Head, which lives in the weak water, is in the west of the famous people, and its shape is like a dragon head, and it cannibalize people.

Translation: Yaya has a head like a dragon, lives in weak water, and is located to the west of the orangutan who can know people's names. It is shaped like a scorpion, has a dragon head, and can eat people.

【Jianmu (shaped like a cow, drawn with leather)】 (Hainei Nanjing · Luxi Ruoshuishang)
There is wood, its shape is like a cow, and it has skins like tassels and yellow snakes.Its leaves are like luo, but in fact they are like luan, and its wood is like stalks, so its name is Jianmu.On Luxi weak water.

Translation: There is a kind of tree whose shape is like a cow. When it is pulled, it peels off its bark, which looks like a tassel on a crown and yellow snake skin.Its leaves are like a snare, its fruit is like that of a eucalyptus tree, its trunk is like a thorny elm, and its name is Jianmu.This kind of building wood grows on the edge of the weak water to the west of the place where Yuyu is located.

【Ba Snake (Snake Green, Red and Black)】(Hainei South Longitude · West of Rhinoceros)

Ba snakes eat elephants, and their bones emerge at the age of three. A gentleman takes it, and there is no heart disease.It is snake blue, red and black.One is a black snake with a green head, in the west of the rhinoceros.

Translation: The Ba snake can swallow an elephant, and it takes three years to spit out the elephant's bones. Talented and virtuous people who eat the meat of the Ba snake will not suffer from heartache or stomach pain.The color of this snake is mixed with blue, yellow, red and black.Another theory holds that Ba snake has a black body and a blue head, and it is located to the west of the rhinoceros.

[旄马 (shaped like a horse, with hair on four sections)] (Hainai Nanjing · in the northwest of Bashe, south of Gaoshan)
Yanma, its shape is like a horse, with hair on all four sections.In the northwest of Bashe, south of Gaoshan.

Translation: 旄 (máo) horse, shaped like an ordinary horse, but with long hairs on the joints of the four legs.Yanma is to the northwest of where Bashe is located and to the south of a high mountain.

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