ARCHIVE Nº 011·Curated wing · 海外经·BEYOND THE SEAS
Textual source · 《山海经·海外北经》
Realms, signal values and guardian matches are creative interpretations, not claims made by the source.
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《山海经·海外北经》：「共工之臣曰相柳氏，九首，以食于九山。相柳之所抵，厥为泽溪。」
AI-assisted contemporary artwork, not a reconstruction of an ancient illustration.
Minister of Gonggong, nine-headed and serpent-bodied; everywhere it passed turned to marsh. It is a single will amplified without limit — nine heads feeding on the same mountains until even it had nowhere left to stand. A reminder to every network: expansion without restraint drowns the expander.
Nine heads feeding on one mountain, until there is no ground left to stand on. Your appetite knows this sooner than you do.
There is only one way for a flood to recede: stop, first.
Textual source · 《山海經·海外北經》
Xiangliu serves Gonggong, has nine heads, feeds across nine mountains, and turns the places it reaches into marshes and streams. The surrounding passage continues beyond Yu's killing of the creature: its blood leaves land unsuitable for grain, and remediation proves difficult. The story concerns the aftermath as well as the monster.
Extracting only the nine heads turns the entry into a power ranking. Reading the water, blood, and unusable soil together reveals a different emphasis on lasting consequences. SYNREX's theme of unchecked expansion is a modern interpretation of those consequences, not an ecological theory stated in the ancient text.