After sailing on the sea for unknown lengths, the bone ship finally arrived at its destination.

It was a huge skeleton island.

"Death Island."

The captain clefted the name of the island.

However, during this voyage of unknown number of days, the captain's skull split also showed that the news about this "Death Island" was also revealed.

This huge island of bones.

However, to be precise, it should be called "Ship Island".

This island of Death is actually formed by bone ships gathered together.

It is not fixed on the sea, but it can move.

After coming to this island made of countless bone ships and docking by the port, Yao Yan saw figures one by one.

Similar to him, each was covered in a black robe, and each was wearing a bone mask with various black marks as a mark.

However, when they were not making a sound, such a scene formed by combining the fog and the scene, according to his memory, may be more suitable in horror movies.

And after the Bone Boat completely docked, a figure appeared on the side of the boat:

"Skull-cleaved, you've spent a long time this time."

Yao Yan looked in the sound and saw a slender man in black robe standing quietly on the straight road formed by the deformation of the hull skeleton in the shadows that penetrated another cabin.

There are black lines on the mouth on the mask.

However, the black robe on his body, to be precise, was not consistent with the black robe on them.

Because the shape of the "Death Clothes" on the black-robed man has changed a bit, and the outline is more "closely" and the black shadow that originally covered the skull like a hood also forms the shape of a triangle hat.

However, more importantly...

The other side has a lower neck position, not a complete skeleton, but a dark blue, translucent posture.

Compared to "skeleton", the titles such as "ghost" and "necrotary" are more suitable.

However, the sound made by the man in black robe had a high tone, and it was more like a "female".

The captain clefted his skull and looked at the other party quietly after the other party made a sound.

The fourth level, "Dead Sea Banshee".

Yao Yan got the news from the captain "Skull".

From the first to the third level, the power of the deceased continues to strengthen. Because of the "voice of the mind", memory and cognition will continue to recover, and the cognition of oneself will gradually be completed.

And when the fourth level is reached, the dead will gradually "form" themselves and construct a "spiritual body".

But there are only "female".

Yao Yan's gaze fell on the black-robed spirit body wearing a triangle hat.

He saw a lot of feather-like things on the other side.

At this time, the black-robed spirit raised his hand—

arm?

No, that's more like a bird's wing, a winger.

Yao Yan looked at the spirit body covered by black robe, squirted with his winged hands, which were faintly wrapped in wide sleeves, and flew up from the shadows and disappeared into the fog.

Such a posture reminded Yao Yan of a legendary creature—

Habi.

To be precise, it should be Harpier.

As part of Greek mythology.

"Monsterization" can also be said to be "demonization", which is a process that will occur during the evolution of many myths.

In Yao Yan's era, the well-known "Greek myth" system ultimately ended with the family god system consisting of the god king Zeus as the core.

However, as far as Yao Yan knows, the formation of this mythological system was due to the mythological construction of the "Olympus religion".

The myth system is not achieved overnight, it has an evolutionary process.

Various mythological versions are circulated among the people.

Often, when "religion" appears, a "integrated" version will appear.

The construction of this integrated version will include the statement of choosing from the society and the various legends that are circulated, and the statement of keeping them intact, and there will be statement of choosing and making changes, and there will be a statement of completely new creation.

There are legendary myths from the local area of ​​the ruling area, and there are legendary myths from the external area. Specifically, even the builders of religious myths cannot fully confirm which parts of the source.

But no matter what, when such a religion is formed, the general structure and a relatively complete mythological system framework are formed.

Of course, there are more than one religion, and there may be more than one religion in the same region. The same religion also has different factions.

The complex relationships and thinking of real interests have built a system of mismatch.

Some parts are consistent, some parts are contradictory, and some parts are completely deviant.

This kind of situation exists.

In an era when all things have spirits, people fear nature and all kinds of creatures that can bring danger. In various ideas, the mythical creatures that people imagine are often simple splicing.

It is normal for monsters such as Chimera to stitch different creature images.

Some people who lack the foundation of mythological knowledge and have a desire to express themselves may sneer at this stitching image, but it is precisely this stitching image that best represents the thinking of people in the era of spiritual things.

It is not only animals, but also the splicing of human and animal images is also the norm.

For various reasons, perhaps to show one's own courage and strength, perhaps to intimidate the enemy, perhaps because of fear, or perhaps just because of dreaming...

Because of these complex reasons, people combine various images.

For example, Zhu Jiuyin, Fuxi and Nuwa.

However, with the evolution of the times, under the influence of simple thinking such as the meaning of Wangwen, "Zhulong" will be taken for granted by people as "dragon head and dragon body".

Some people will make mistakes even if they know it, and some people will "trace the origin" and "restore history".

However, mythological images are fictional things and have multiple versions of them.

In mythology, every image is meaningful.

Rumors, erroneousness, recreation, deconstruction, interpretation...

These are all part of mythology.

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For example, an image starts with an animal splicing posture, with a simple body and a vicious shape, and only images.

This represents the roughness of the painting technology at that time and the roughness of the splicing can itself clearly show the source of each part.

The first time this image evolved, the first time it was recorded in words.

What does it mean to be recorded in words? Perhaps it means that words begin to appear in this era, or it may be the first time that words of this era have included this image.

The former is simple and clear, while the latter may represent the conquest of one force over another.

The second evolution was that a part of this image was replaced by another animal.

This may be the problem of the recorder himself. He has never seen such creatures. According to his own experience, he describes them "almost" in a way. This may mean that the class of the recorder is completely out of touch with life practice, or it may be the complete demise of some animal, or it may be the geographical change and transfer, or it may be the impact of the climate...

In the third evolution, the image of this animal was refined, but the image was more inclined to be kind, and there was no change in the written records.

Or the subjective ideas of the recorder himself, or perhaps it is the complete disconnection of people in this era towards this creature and mythological image, or perhaps it is the change in the status of this image in this force, culture and civilization.

In the fourth evolution, the image of this legendary animal became ferocious and some evil deeds were included in the records.

This may represent the image conflict between the painter and the written recorder, or it may be unilateral. The painter draws according to the description, or the recorder describes according to the drawing.

It is also possible that in society at that time, even around the recorder, the recorder heard that many deaths of unknown causes occurred, and then they were linked to the thing.

These are folklore and what mythology needs to be studied.

In Yao Yan's era, there were many people who redesigned the images of these gods and monsters with the idea of ​​"tracing the origin and clearing the source".

Their image is more refined, but why?

Why do they portray these images?

This may be a manifestation of a social trend, such as the literature of overturning the case, and people's disgust of rumors and fallacies...

There are all kinds of reasons for the birth of something.

The "monsterization" in religion and mythology cannot be generalized.

A certain divine religion is highly exclusive and rejected, so it has a higher degree of rejection of gods and monsters in systems outside itself, and there are more descriptions of "evil".

If a religion advocates intimidation-style missionary methods, such descriptions will be even more serious.

Different degrees of monsterization themselves represent different practical significance.

And according to what Yaoyan knows, the image of Harpie may itself be a god that appeared before the emergence of Olympus.
To be continued...