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"Online Hongshan Cultural Jade Museum • Episode II" No. 122

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The owl god sits on the cicada platform

ID: 0122 Abbreviation: 鴞神、 鴞神 sits on the cicada platform.

Full name: Neolithic Hongshan culture turquoise god sitting on the cicada platform.

Data. It weighs 1575 grams, is 190 mm high, 90 mm wide and 60 mm thick.

Material: Huge turquoise carving. Or there may be small pits, spots, and small blemishes.

Shape: The owl god sits on the cicada platform, the head is an owl, and the body is also an owl, squatting on the cicada platform. Call it the "cicada god".

Ornamentation: Ornamentation and shape are the same.

Treatise:

No. 122, the head and body are all birds, but the human appearance squatting on the cicada platform, so it is called the "owl god". ... The cicada is the "god of farmland" in the Red Mountain culture, ... The owl, commonly known as the owl, has a diet dominated by rodents, which generally spoil crops and steal food, and are "pests", ... The enemy of the enemy is the friend, the owl eats the mouse, the owl becomes the protector of agriculture, and thus becomes the friend of mankind,... In primitive societies that worship nature and believe that "all things have spirits", the owl is worshipped as the "owl god" who protects agriculture.

"Online Hongshan Cultural Jade Museum • Episode II" No. 122
"Online Hongshan Cultural Jade Museum • Episode II" No. 122
"Online Hongshan Cultural Jade Museum • Episode II" No. 122
"Online Hongshan Cultural Jade Museum • Episode II" No. 122

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