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SHU U ・ SO U
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Refers to an ALTAR as the place formerly for killing a sacrifice and then eating the slaughtered meat. Nowadays in Japan, a rather small representation of a Shintō altar within one's home and under the「roof」mounted high on a wall and out of reach that is dedicated to the household's「surrounding from above」spirits of the dead, the family's main progenitors and ancestors. Later in Japan, after Buddhism became extant, an additional Buddhist altar was added in traditional homes side-by-side with the Shintō altar dedicated to one's ancestors, but these are different icons.
As HUMANITY'S ORIGINS, OUR ANCESTORS, RELIGIOUS SECTS, SCHOOLING, LEARNING, TEACHINGS, and THE MODEL FOR starting up a family or clan, the model for moral behavior and remaining free of transmitted infections,「rather have calm and peace」with「one small stream of emissions」suggests someone who places IMPORTANCE on a less rowdy atmosphere, shunning group sex in the caves o' wonder (most of the time), preferring more often to stay at home with one's own CLAN, TRIBE as bonobo-type humans who want to remain only with his or her family members, having a「preference for array of small youths」or a「mound of young ones」and so on as sacrificial meat on the altar, which today is referred to as pedophiliac incest or cannibalistic infanticide and either may get you life in the hoosegow. That all seem to point to sex scandals of many religious figures today, too.
HUMANITY'S ORIGINS, OUR ANCESTORS:「Like humans but unlike chimps and most other animals, bonobos separate sex from reproduction. They seem to treat sex as a pleasurable activity, and they rely on it as a sort of social glue, to make or break all sorts of relationships. 'Ancestral humans behaved like this,' proposes Frans de Waal, an ethologist at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University. 'Later, when we developed the family system, the use of sex for this sort of purpose became more limited, mainly occurring within families [i.e., incest]. A lot of the things we see, like pedophilia and homosexuality, may be leftovers that some now consider unacceptable in our particular society.' 」
[ https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/casual-sex-play-common-among-bonobos 2023-05-14 ]
「Human cannibals likely took a big bite out of their fellow humans about 10,000 years ago, according to a study that examined prehistoric bones with scratch and bite marks on them. …In the end, they discovered 30 bones belonging to three individuals: a robust adult, a gracile adult and an infant. However, the infant had only one complete bone (a shoulder blade, or scapula) that did not show signs of cannibalism, the researchers said. …But the practice goes way back: there's even evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism in Belgium and Spain from more than 40,000 years ago, when they went extinct, Live Science previously reported.」
[ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prehistoric-human-bones-show-signs-of-cannibalism/ 2017-03-28 ]
「We know that human sacrifice and cannibalism were widely practiced in pre-literate societies and that they were not local but universal cultural phenomena. …[T]he ancient Chinese also participated in this culture, which has much in common with the [Journal of Generative Anthropology] position about the violent origin and early development of human civilization…」
[ https://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1401/1401plutschow/ 2011-03-08 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
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: school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs
Japanese: sect, center, pillar, principle
Unihan extended: lineage, ancestry; ancestor, clan
EDRDG: religion; sect; denomination; main point; origin; essence
Used within names (nanori)
かず ・ し ・ そ ・ そお ・ たか ・ とし ・ のり ・ ひろ ・ むな ・ もと ・ よし
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: 120 entries
Chinese usage: 112 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 22 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 33 entries
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