Jiaolong
Jiaolong or ‘jiao’ is a polysemous (having more than one possible shape or meaning) aquatic dragon in Chinese mythology. Edward H. Schafer describes the jiao:
Spiritually akin to the crocodile, and perhaps originally the same reptile, was a mysterious creature capable of many forms called the chiao (kău). Most often it was regarded as a kind of lung – a “dragon” as we say. But sometimes it was manlike, and sometimes it was merely a fish. All of its realizations were interchangeable. (1967:217-8)
The dragon which caused floods and landslides. Curious picture: where did you find it?
Found in the online library of tantric geomancy and oddities known as wikipedia
on a little foray looking for oceanic tidbits that resonate, howsoever
fwiw 2012 is black water dragon year, so eccentricity, excess of energy and offcentredness abound
seems right so far
This is only somewhat related to jiao ;(
One of ancient China’s “Three Sovereigns” (Emperors) was Fuxi, who is ascribed with the discovery of the bagua – the eight trigram foundation of the Yi jing (I Ching). Fuxi is pictured above in a classic ancient image intertwined with Nuwa – who is sometimes named as his sister, sometimes as his wife. For more images see bottom of this post http://www.templestudy.com/2008/09/17/nuwa-and-fuxi-in-chinese-mythology-compass-square/
According to one Chinese creation myth, Fuxi and Nuwa were siblings, and the sole survivors of a massive flood. Familiar? After the flood, Fuxi and Nuwa received Divine approval to procreate together, in order to re-establish the human race. This was a big job, so in addition to the usual means of procreating, the two were empowered to create clay figures, into which they infused the breath of life. Familiar again?
This story can also be understood as representing the dance of Yin and Yang – the primordial feminine and masculine energies whose interpenetration births the “ten-thousand things.”
On a less abstract level, Fuxi and Nuwa represent one of the earliest examples of a tantric spiritual partnership between a man and a woman. Such partnerships are an aspect of Taoist practice in which the often-sticky issues of gender and sexuality are transmuted, transformed,, transmogrified and so on.
I remember the bas reliefs of Angkor Wat, they went for wall lengths, intertwined, all serpertine, arms and snakes. It was my first experience of this art in the world. It goes with out saying of the semblance with aboriginal art. Still a bunch of crocodiles in a cavern still scare the shit out of me in my dreams.
go towards them