The singing sands of Great Dunhuang, the bodhisattvas of North by Northwest Cathay (page 64)
the oasis city that has always linked you and I
On page 24 (Descended from Dragons) I wrote of the Yellow Dragon and the Yellow Emperor.
In addition to the Yellow Dragon, there are other dragons. For instance the Black Dragon I mentioned on page 14 (Laohu the Amur Tiger, and Amur River meaning Black Dragon River).
There is also the Winged Responsive Dragon 應龍, the Heavenly Constellation Dragon 天龍, the Thunder God Dragon 神龍, the Hornless Scaled Dragon 蛟龍, the Coiled Lake Dragon 蟠龍, the Flying Cloud Dragon 飛龍, and dragons of more.
But in particular, there is the Azure Blue-Green Dragon 青龍.
The Azure Blue-Green Dragon 青龍 will indeed play a role in our story. But first, I’d like to talk about the word mi 蜜 meaning honey.
Wilhelmina Wang and before her Li Bai (not to mention Matt Damon in the other direction) had traversed the desert places.
In North by Northwest China and beyond, since the ancient times, languages and lives have mingled and mixed.
Religions and cultures have blended.
Peoples have fought and loved.
The ancient Tocharians of the Tarim Basin called honey *ḿət(ə). Moving westward, the word is still cognate with Met in German and mead in English, meaning honeywine. Moving eastward, it lives to this day in the Chinese word for honey mi 蜜.
Let us listen then, you and I, to the singing sands of Great Dunhuang, dance with the bodhisattvas of North by Northwest Cathay, connect in the oasis city that has always linked you and I: