No litany of gross sexual perversions would be complete without some references to thanatophilia.
　Chinese sources state this is a corrupted form of 㐬 and refers to ABSURD BEHAVIOR, NEGLECT, being BARREN, WITHOUT OFFSPRING, with some VIOLENT and CRUDE actions. Elements in this glyph are「emerging shaft」「dead or unseen」「rod in copulation」which taken as a whole seems rather cryptic, since a rod in copulation can actually be seen always more or less, longer or shorter, when engaging an orifice. Therefore, just when or where would a rod in copulation remain「unseen」? and/or be a「dead emerging shaft」? with absurd violent and crude behavior? guaranteed to be barren and without offspring? the result of NEGLECT and that unquestionably NEGLECTS the service provider in the extreme? and not within a usual orifice? with supply never satisfying the demand, SCARCE? being out of practice…? answer: when a shaft is filled with some disease or other and cannot be granted access to any of the mucous membrane orifices, therefore it is humping between breasts, a tit-fuck, or worse as possibly a necrophiliac with a breast fetish (seriously. See all four Used-in glyphs: 慌, 𣗄, 謊, 𩺊), which is fairly common among necrophiliacs it appears:「Singular accounts of necrophilia in history are sporadic, though written records suggest the practice was present within Ancient Egypt. Herodotus writes in The Histories that, to discourage intercourse with a corpse, ancient Egyptians left deceased beautiful women to decay for 'three or four days' before giving them to the embalmers. Herodotus also alluded to suggestions that Greek tyrant Periander had defiled the corpse of his wife, employing a metaphor: 'Periander baked his bread in a cold oven.' …Hittite law the 16th century BC through to the 13th century BC explicitly permitted sex with the dead.」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia 2015-11-21, emphasis ours　]　
　Before decrying, note that cannibalism, torture until death, and necrophilia were portrayed in the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by the Brothers Grimm in their children's tale.
　Depicting an area that at one time was flooded but is normally dry, a WASTELAND area that is BARREN, hairless. Perhaps now covered by a layer of stifling, impermeable yellow clay. Or dry riverbeds. Or an abandoned area wasted in the past by a tsunami, mudslide, earthquake, or a crippled nuclear power plant unabatedly disgorging plumes of radioactivity into the atmosphere, water table, and surrounding sea…「dead rod in copulation」suggesting a nuclear meltdown that fucks up life for a while [a modern interpretation].
　Further note that the lower elements are not「river」or some variant thereof, although some sort of flow is anticipated, eventually.

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: desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect
Japanese: leftovers, rice chaff, flaw, rough, roughly, crude, raw, natural, wild, to lay waste, to devastate, to damage, to invade, to break into, to grow wild, to rage, to become rough, to run to waste
Unihan extended: wasteland, desert; uncultivated
EDRDG: laid waste; rough; rude; wild

Used within names (nanori)
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