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Basalt is a kind of turtle and snake are combined into a fetish. Basalticmeant feeling， Wu， Ming ancient is the same. Wu， is the meaning of black; Ming， is the Yin. For the ends of at first is to turtle divination describing: turtle is black， the turtle divination is asks the turtle to visit to the depth to ask at first， will answer back， to show the world a divination trillion form. Therefore， the earliest basaltic turtle. Later， feeling the meaning expanding. Turtles live in the rivers and lakes (including Kuo Haigui)， so the feeling of the water; the turtle longevity， feeling the ever-young symbol; the first night in the north， the Shang oracle bone divination that 'the Bu 必北 to'， so the feeling became the North god.

It and other Sanling， basalt from the world twenty-eight stars become: thebucket， cattle， female， virtual， risk， room， wall. But in ancient times peopleinterpretation of basaltic it has several kinds of the following， namely'basaltic' turtle. "Book of rites. Ceremony music" cloud: 'OK， before Zhu bird and basaltic...' 'Black' is the tortoise and snake. "The songs of Chu"Hong xingzu. Travel notes: 'basaltic， called the tortoise and snake. In the north， Yue yuen. The body has the scales， Gu Yue wu. 'basaltic' forcombined snake body， turtle and snake hand.