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Shu
Shu may refer to:
- Shu (Egyptian deity)
- 蜀 (Shǔ), an abbreviation of Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China, as well as the following historical regimes that have existed in this region:
- Shu (state) (蜀国/蜀國 or 古蜀), a state during the Zhou Dynasty era
- Shu Han (蜀汉/蜀漢), a state that existed during the Three Kingdoms Period
- Cheng Han (成汉/成漢), also named Later Shu (后蜀/後蜀), one of the Sixteen Kingdoms
- Western Shu (西蜀), also named Qiao Shu (谯蜀/譙蜀), one of the units of the Eastern Jin period
- Former Shu (前蜀), one of the divisions of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
- Later Shu (后蜀/後蜀), one of the divisions of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
- the Kazakh name for the Chui River
- Shu, Kazakhstan
- The ancient Chinese Classic of History (Shū 書)
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Shu
[Egyptian] The embodiment of the sky. In the Ennead of Heliopolis he is the son of Atum and brother-husband of Tefnut. He was one of the first deities to be created by Atum, either from his semen or the muscus of his notrils. With Tefnut he became the father of Nut (the sky) and Seb (the earth). He raised the body of his daughter high above the earth and separated thus heaven and earth. The connection of Atum and Re, as Atum-Re, makes Shu a 'son of Re' and as such the brother of the Egyptian king (who calls himself a 'son' as well. Shu is depicted in human form wearing an ostrich feather (the hieroglyph for his name), with his arms raised to support Nut above the supine form of her brother Geb.
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Shu
Shu (Egyptian) [from shu dry, parched] The Egyptian god of light, popularly associated with heat and dryness, and the ethereal spaces existing between the earth and the vault of the sky; often depicted as holding up the sky with his two hands, one at the place of sunrise, the other of sunset. The phonetic value of shu is the feather, which is the symbol of this deity, and appears above his headdress. Shu is manifest during the day in the beams of the sun, and at night in the beams of the moon; the solar disk is his home. He is likewise one of the chief deities of the underworld, the gate of the pillars of Shu (tchesert) marking the entrance to this region, the pillars representing the four cardinal points said to hold up the sky. Although the twin brother of Tefnut -- often alluded to as the twin lion-deities -- Shu is more often represented with Seb and Nut (deities of cosmic space and of its garment of ethereal substance) in his position of holding up the sky, because in theosophical terminology cosmic light as well as cosmic intelligence (the Logos) is born from Brahman and pradhana, or parabrahman and mulaprakriti.
Shu on the smaller scale is solar energy (SD 1:360).
Shu on the smaller scale is solar energy (SD 1:360).
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乐不思蜀
le4 bu4 si1 shu3
So happy that you forget the state of Shu.
To be so happy that you forget to return to your past or to your home.
So happy that you forget the state of Shu.
To be so happy that you forget to return to your past or to your home.
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