The Large Intestine Xiu (宿) : Kui (奎 ) and Lou (婁)
Kui (奎) “Legs” or “Big Jade Tablet”
The Kui 奎 constellation is made of 16 stars from both the Andromeda constellation and the Pisces constellation. They are found in the tail of the Qilin (or White Tiger) of the Western Palace. The character for Kui, 奎, is a picture of a man standing over a jade tablet. This tablet has something to do with power and can also be a burial object.
Kui Xiu Map
Lou (婁) “Mound” or “Go bad”
The Lou 婁 constellation is made of three stars from the Aries constellation. According to Walter’s, 婁 is associated with the harvest and the rites and sacrifices that go along with it
Lou Xiu
When one looks at the two constellations together, it is easy to see that there are legs standing over some sort of sacrifice/mound. Because of the etymology of the 奎 character, the sacrifice could have had something to do with a very important and powerful object 圭. Something so powerful that it would have been placed with the dead person to take into the afterlife.
Because of the modern connotations of lou being “to go bad,” this object would most likely have to be organic. The Kui constellation is associated with inauspicious times (whereas Lou is quite lucky), and perhaps some of this association could have to do with Kui being the bringer of death to Lou. He has killed some sort of animal sacrifice and stands over it’s dead body.
The large intestine acts as the executioner within the body, killing what is necessary so that other parts of the body can extract the life essence. When it is done with its job, it excretes the dead carcasses (60% of human feces is dead bacteria) and stands over the mound of what it has destroyed.
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