Mahdihassan S
Am J Chin Med. 1982;10(1-4):5-13. doi: 10.1142/S0192415X82000038.
The agency conferring resurrection is soul or its emblem. The earliest conception of soul is blood. Its Redness penetrates subsoil and is taken up by serpent, from whence arises snake-soul, later snake-god. Blood vapours is the other fraction arising upwards. It becomes wraith bird, later soul bird, and finally bird god. Blood as whole gave snake-god plus bird-god. A winged-cobra became snake-god and bird-god or together, one-as-all. Red Cock was its equivalent. As substance came cinnabar, red like blood and sublimable like soul. Dragon was idealized snake-god. Then Dragon-god plus Bird-god became the equal of blood soul, the magical power. T'ao-t'ieh is Dragon-plus-Bird, snake-god plus bird-god, the equivalent of Cosmic soul. Then cinnabar as the equal of blood soul and T'ao-t'ieh, the emblem of Cosmic soul, each were capable of conferring resurrection and have been interred in Chinese graves.
赋予复活能力的是灵魂或其象征。灵魂最早的概念是血液。它的红色渗透到地下，被蛇吸收，由此产生了蛇灵，后来演变成蛇神。血液蒸汽是向上升腾的另一部分。它变成了幽灵鸟，后来是灵魂鸟，最后成为鸟神。作为整体的血液产生了蛇神加鸟神。有翼眼镜蛇成为了蛇神和鸟神，或者合二为一，融为一体。红公鸡与之相当。作为物质的是朱砂，它像血一样红，像灵魂一样可升华。龙是理想化的蛇神。然后龙神加鸟神成为了血魂、魔力的等同物。饕餮是龙加鸟，蛇神加鸟神，等同于宇宙灵魂。然后朱砂等同于血魂，饕餮作为宇宙灵魂的象征，它们都能够赋予复活能力，并被埋葬在中国的坟墓中。
