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What is conceivable, however, is conceiving a case of the pox: syphilis in humans perhaps caused by tupping sheep and goats, or at the very least being attributable to tupping sheep. Gangrenous, diseased flesh changes color, to black. A human who「depends upon sheep」for a praiseworthy experience will often cause the hind end of the animal to be smeared with blackish paste, and doing so is also a great way to become infected. Clearly, the terms in English related to BLACK SHEEP of the family being regarded as a disgrace and an embarrassment to the rest of the group and so on, were derived from getting the pox while anal-tupping in ovine zooerastia, someone who caused white wool (family name and reputation) to be smeared with black feces: formerly, the term in fact was the 'blackened sheep of the family' which makes more sense socially, genetically, and scatologically.
The commonly held explanation of 'black wool cannot be dyed' makes no sense, since black garments have also in been demand for millennia, and that color of natural wool works quite nicely…in fact, sheep wool naturally is produced in a wide range of shades and colors other than whitish, but those colors were not disparaged. Rather than being negative, the wool of black sheep may have been prized as it could be made into dark cloth without dyeing [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baa,_Baa,_Black_Sheep 2019-07-14 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Unihan extended: a plague or a pestilence of goat (sheep); black goat or sheep, black
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
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 3 entries
- Glyph.06323
- Strokes: 12
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