What does a tiger with wings mean?

[BlackoutKnight]

The Chinese saying (a tiger with wings) mean to make something that is already powerful more so this is a link to a website with info on the mythology moyustore

Qiongqi is one of the four ancient beasts, which originated from the “Shan Hai Jing”. Qiongqi’s appearance is like a giant tiger, it eats people, and cannibalism starts from scratch. It has grown a pair of wings, so the so-called “adding wings to a tiger” refers to it. Qiongqi has a perverse personality and likes watching people fight the most. It is said that Qiongqi often flies to the scene of the fight, eats the righteous party, and bites off the nose of the loyal person. If someone commits evil deeds, Qiongqi will catch the beast and give it to him, and encourage him to do more bad things. A beast that only “punishes the good and promotes the evil”. And the ancients also like to call the kind of people who don’t care about their hearts, who are far away from gentlemen and close to villains, as Qiongqi.

Also the Greek tiger with wings is just mural associated with Dionysus and he is pretty bad

ARTogether says in the form of art a tiger with wings means it embodies the truth of it’s near impossibility, and therefore it’s preciousness

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[profmag]

So, there is some connection to questionable things mythologically, but over-all the current meaning is much more positive meaning either:

1. A rare and near impossible truth.

2. Add power to something already powerful.

The question is should Xians use it with the mythological roots and current meaning? So there are two schools of thought on this: non-syncretist and Celtic. The Non-syncretist would say you should blend anything from one religion into another. For example Christianity should only use Biblical images, stories, symbols, and ideas and should exclude and maybe oppose or surpress ideas from other religions and spiritual traditions. Here’s what some mean by the Celtic approach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFp04dB8_8

[geckoguy]

the tiger with wings is awesome but satanic?

[BlackoutKnight]

I’m all for syncretism like if people didn’t stomp out the native Americans and their culture we probably would not be dealing with climate change and the fall of capitalism as we know it. I don’t think that we should go back to worshiping animals or stuff like that but to adapt their process for development and respect for nature and other lives and cultures

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by  BlackoutKnight.
• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by  BlackoutKnight.