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One point worth noting is that human beings are the only animal known to not eat only raw meat; that is to say, humans routinely cook meat prior to ingestion (but, not always). Therefore, reading these elements as "beast with raw" or as "beast with life" does not narrow the field of possibilities at all, leaving「beast with prick head for all stages of life, at birth」likely as the only viable reading. Other animals may prefer meat cooked by humans over raw meat though, and who can argue with barbeque in that regard? Other animals, such as damselflies and dragonflies, fig wasps, pyemotid mites, nematodes and parasitic worms also copulate with newly hatched females of their species, but are not normally considered to be "hairy beasts" as are the STOATS, being a famous mammalian outlier.
Perhaps ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT applies mentally and morally as well as anatomically when COPULATING WITH NEWBORNS.
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system!
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles?
Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
Primal elements
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
- Glyph.02318
- Strokes: 08
- censored
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