What are the mythical rain gods?

Chaac (Chaac or Chaak, ancient Mayan language: Chaahk), or translated as Chuck, is the god of rain and lightning in Mayan mythology. He is an axe with lightning, chopping clouds and cutting rain, thunder and rain. Chuck corresponds to Tralock in Aztec mythology.

Like some other Mayan gods, Chuck is both a god and many gods. The four suckers represent four directions in the southeast, northwest and different colors: red in the east, white in the north, black in the west and yellow in the south. In the Yucatan Peninsula in the16th century, the Chakner people in the east were named Chuck Hib Chuck, which means "Red Chuck".

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In China mythology, the rain boy belongs to Buhler's god.

In Japanese myths and legends, as the servant of the rain god, the most traditional image of the rain boy is wearing hemp fiber and clogs and holding a huge green leaf as a small umbrella. Rain boy is responsible for the rain work on the earth. As a monster, it brings natural benefits to the growth of all things.

3. Rain God

Originated from China myth, it is a common god in Taoism, also known as Pingming and Xuan Ming. Legend has it that the God in charge of rain originated from the ancient myth of China, and is considered as the fifth night of the seven nights of the Western White Tiger-Bixing. * * * has eight stars and belongs to Taurus. After the rain, the teacher is Shang Yang or Pinus densiflora.

The myth and legend about the rain god originated from the natural worship of rain. There are always Bi Xing stars in the astronomical map of Han Dynasty stone reliefs in Nanyang, which is related to the custom of praying for rain. The rain master in Han paintings is neither a star nor a bird or a beast, but a person's image, which shows that Er Shen has been personified in Han Dynasty.

Sacrifices to Fengbo and Shi Yu in the Han Dynasty have been included in national ceremonies, and temples in Fengbo and Shi Yu have also been established in China.

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Nature worship

Primitive humans usually personify natural forces and give them shapes, just like rain has a rain teacher, wind has Fengbo, thunder has thunder, and clouds have a cloud god.

In fact, nature worship is a spontaneous religion of primitive people, which has no fixed form, because at that time, human beings only observed the huge and mysterious world around them with extremely underdeveloped thinking concepts and subtle practice, and because nature is the basis of human survival and dependence, people will regard all incomprehensible natural phenomena as their worship objects.

Feuerbach once said when discussing the essence of religion, "People's sense of dependence is the foundation of religion, and the object of this sense of dependence, that is, what people rely on and feel dependent on themselves, is nothing but nature. Nature is the first and most primitive object of religion; The history of all religions and all ethnic groups fully proves this point. "

The reason for this phenomenon is the low original productivity. On the one hand, nature provides all the material materials and conditions for human survival, on the other hand, it will also bring great disasters to human beings. Nature worship is the product of this contradiction and conflict.

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