Yeban (夜半) and Shiyi (十一月)
Snowy Night
Yeban is considered the midnight hour, from 11pm to 1am. The Sun is at its zenith, and this is the time for contemplation, initiation, spiritual knowledge and insight. This is the time that we contact the spirits through our traveling Hun spirit.
In many Western cultures, this is considered the hour of Pan, in which the mysterious happens, and is also associated with demons and the Devil. Midnight is the time that the guard is down and that the world has gone into storage. Most demons are believed to feed off the reserves of human beings, and so it makes sense that they would come at the time that these energies and fluids have been put into storage. Many herbs are gathered at the midnight hour, as it is thought that they are most potent at this time.
Here again, as with the Rat, is the idea of eating as well as the demonic. The physiological Gallbladder does store the fluid that is capable of breaking apart the fats that are ingested. These fats are Natures way of storing a great deal of energy, and so the correlation can be seen on many levels.
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