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Bashe
Bashe () was a python-like Chinese mythological giant snake that ate elephants.
==Name==
The term ''bashe'' compounds ''ba'' 巴 "a proper name; tip, tail; crust; greatly desire; cling to; be near" and ''she'' 蛇 "snake; serpent".
The Chinese character 巴 for ''ba'' was graphically simplified from ancient Oracle bone script and Seal script pictograms of a long-tailed snake. In early Written Chinese usage, ''ba'' 巴 frequently referred to the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BCE-256 BCE) state of Ba, which was located in present-day eastern Sichuan. In Modern Standard Chinese usage, ''ba'' 巴 often transcribes foreign loanwords such as ''ba'' 巴 "bar (unit)", ''Bali'' 巴黎 "Paris", or ''Guba'' 古巴 "Cuba". ''Ba'' 巴 is a variant Chinese character for ''ba'' 把 "grasp; handle", ''ba'' 笆 "bamboo; fence", or ''ba'' 芭 in ''bajiao'' 芭蕉 "banana" (using ''ba'' 巴 as the phonetic element with graphic radicals for 扌 "hand", 竹 "bamboo", and 艹 "plant").
''Bashe'' not only names this mythical giant reptile or Chinese dragon but is also a variant Chinese name for the South Asian ''ran'' 蚺 or ''mang'' 蟒 "python" (and South American "boa constrictor" or African "mamba"). "Mythical draconyms often derive from names of larger reptilians", says Carr (1990:167) and, "Since pythons usually crush their prey and swallow them whole, one can imagine Chinese tales about southern ''ran'' 蚺 'pythons' being exaggerated into legendarily-constipated ''bashe'' 'giant snakes' that ate an elephant every three years." In literary usage, ''bashe'' is found in the four-character idiom ''bashetunxiang'' 巴蛇吞象 (lit. "''ba''-snake gulping down an elephant") meaning "inordinately greedy; extremely insatiable".
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