1. Chaac
Chaac (Chaac or Chac, Old Mayan: Chaahk), or Chac, is the god of rain and thunder in Mayan mythology. He was a man who used lightning as an axe to hack at clouds, causing thunder and rain. Chac corresponds to Tlaloc in Aztec mythology.
Like some other Maya deities, Chac was both a single god and multiple gods. The four chacs are representative of the four directions, southeast, northwest, and north, with different colors: red in the east, white in the north, black in the west, and yellow in the south. In the 16th century Yucatan Peninsula, the eastern Chac was named Chac Xib Chac, which means "Red Man Chac".
2. Yutong
In Chinese mythology, Yutong belongs to the Thunder Gods of the Celestial Immortals.
In Japanese mythology, Yutaka, as a servant of the rain god, is most traditionally depicted wearing a straw raincoat and clogs and holding a huge branch of green leaves as a small umbrella. The Rain Child is in charge of the rainfall of the earth. As a demon, it is the one who brings nature's bounty to the growth of all things.
3. Rain Master
Originally from Chinese mythology, the Rain Master is a Taoist deity, also known as Ping Fei and Xuan Hei. Legend has it that the god in charge of rain, originating from ancient Chinese mythology, is considered to be Bi Xing, that is, the fifth of the seven western White Tiger hosts, *** there are eight stars, belonging to the constellation of Taurus. Later, there are two sayings that the rain master is Shang Yang or Chi Song Zi.
Myths and legends about the Rainmaker, the earliest from the nature worship of rain. The astronomical charts in Nanyang's Han portraits often show the star of Bi Xing, which is related to the custom of praying for rain. The wind and rain masters in Han paintings are neither stars nor birds and animals, but entirely human figures, indicating that the two gods have been personified in the Han Dynasty.
The worship of the wind and rain masters in the Han Dynasty was incorporated into the national rituals, and temples of the wind and rain masters were set up in all Chinese folklore.
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Nature Worship
Primitive humans usually anthropomorphized natural forces and gave them forms, just as there are rainmasters for the rain, winds for the wind uncle, thunders for the thunderer, and clouds for the cloud god.
In fact, nature worship is a kind of spontaneous religion of primitive people, and there is no fixed form of this kind of religion, because at that time, human beings only rely on the extremely undeveloped concept of thinking and subtle practical experience to observe the huge and mysterious world around them, and also because the natural world is the basis for man-made survival and dependence, so for all the unfathomable natural phenomena, people will take them as the object of their own worship. objects of worship.
Feuerbach, when discussing the nature of religion, said, "The sense of dependence of man is the basis of religion, and the object of this sense of dependence, that is, the thing on which man relies, and on which he feels himself dependent, is nothing else but nature. Nature is the first and most primitive object of religion; this is amply proved by the history of all religions and of all nations".
The reason for this phenomenon is the low productivity of the primitive, nature on the one hand provides all the material materials and conditions for human beings to survive, and on the other hand brings great disasters to human beings, and nature worship is the product of this contradictory conflict.
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