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ma tsu ru ・ ma tsu ri ・ ma tsu ri
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「Display of meat while down on all fours」today refers to any sort of FESTIVAL, not unlike modern carnivals (the English word 'carnival' literally means「meat is raised, lifted.」…various type of meat, still living and in heat, or recently sacrificed).「Body, meat, or flesh」placed upon an「altar」while「bowing down and kneeling」suggests a BURNT OFFERING for a religious festival, as if one's gods enjoy the aroma of scorched animal flesh. Anyway, most of that meat was consumed by humans while partying at the FESTIVAL and did not go up in smoke.
In modern times, the word「carnival」refers to meat-eating and a wild party to 'get it out of their system' in New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, or most anywhere else prior to the start of a 40-day religious period of voluntary deprivation…carne meaning 'meat' as in the English 'carnivorous.' The origin of most major religious festivals and holidays worldwide have roots of partying by pagans and heathens who were converted to some other mainstream religion, but didn't want to abandon their traditional, secular fun…so, simply renaming festivals in honor of the newly-adopted religious heroes was commonplace.
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: to offer sacrifice; festive occasion
Japanese: festival, feast, to deify, to enshrine, to pray, to worship
Unihan extended: sacrifice to, worship
EDRDG: ritual; offer prayers; celebrate; deify; enshrine; worship
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 211 entries
Chinese usage: 35 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 11 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 39 entries
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- Strokes: 11
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