Black Turtle-Snake
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title:
Black Turtle-Snake
text:
The Black Tortoise is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. It is usually depicted as a tortoise intertwined with a snake. The character '武' can mean 'martial' or 'warrior.' The two characters 玄 and 武 do not have any literal meaning of tortoise and snake. But both tortoise and snake are known to hibernate during winter. The image of intertwined tortoise and snake likely symbolizes a state of inner struggle or a state of hibernation, and thus implies the season of winter. So the
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encyclopedia
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Chinese mythology symbol
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Turtle-Snake
date created:
2005-06-17T19:23:16Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T09:58:09Z
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