Nuwa s body is a snake s tail, so why does the person she created have two legs?

Nuwa is the goddess of creation in Chinese mythology, and according to legend, she has the image of a human body with a snake tail. There are various explanations as to why the human beings she created have two legs.

One theory is that Nuwa believed that the human snake tail was not suitable for the survival and development of humans, so she replaced the human tail with two legs, so that humans could move more flexibly and adapt to different environments.

Another theory is that in early legends, gods such as Nuwa were active in the sea, so it was more appropriate to use tails. But on land, it is inconvenient for the tail to walk, so Nuwa makes people two-legged, so that it is more convenient for humans to move on land.

These explanations reflect people's reverence and gratitude for Nuwa, as well as their imagination and exploration of the origin and development of human beings.

In the great flood of ancient times, the Nuwa clan survived with a snake tail, and later the flood receded, and the Nuwa clan gradually evolved two legs. You get the idea.

Nuwa is a human-headed snake body.

According to the archaeological excavation of cultural relics, relics and faience ornaments to provide prehistoric human struggle against the flood and the life traces of fertility worship, the historical and cultural roots lie in the inheritance of the concept of female worship in the primitive matriarchal society.

In many literatures, people describe Nuwa as human figures, and even clearly state that Nuwa is a member of the Nuwa tribe and is two brothers and sisters with Fuxi. However, legend points out that the Nuwa people were originally a group of people with individual heads and snake bodies, and the members of the clan were all human heads and snake bodies.

The reason why the ancients worshipped the snake was very simple, one was because the snake had a strong reproductive ability, and the ancient times were very respectful of the reproductive ability of women, so the ancients revered the snake; The second is the fear of people's ability to snake because of the harsh living environment in ancient times. Snakes have no limbs, but they can crawl freely and survive on both edema and land.

And the snake also has the ability to "come back to life", every spring, the hibernating snake begins to revive, and molt and regenerate, so that the primitive people who are coerced by natural forces and live in extremely difficult conditions have great reverence for snakes. At the same time, snakes are poisonous and often attack people, causing harm or even loss of life.

Creation myths. In the myth of Nuwa, from the original Nuwa turning into a god and then to Nuwa transforming all things to Nuwa creating people and mending the sky, this series of feats are all in a state of opposition between heaven and earth. Before Nuwa, there was no heaven and no land.

Since the birth of Nuwa, she first incarnated as a god, and the appearance of the god led to the birth of heaven, and then Nuwa incarnated all things, followed by the appearance of all things, and the earth also appeared, and at this time the heavens and the earth were peaceful.

The reason why Nuwa is a human-headed snake body is actually the ancients' worship of the snake's reproductive ability and snake totem, combining the snake and Nuwa's female image, not only the mystery of mythology, but also because of the tenacious vitality and vigorous fertility of the snake itself, which is a symbol of eternal life.

Because in legend the snake is very powerful. And only a snake can give birth to so many humans at once. If it's a human being, it may not be born.