We once believed that the gods or the gods described in books had certain specific skills that humans couldn't use or master. For things that humans couldn't do or that were beyond their comprehension and control, humans would be afraid.
In ancient China, there was a novel called "The Legend of the Divine Kings", which was a 100-chapter-long supernatural novel edited by Xu Zhonglin in the Ming Dynasty. This novel is one of the four major myths in ancient China. The origin of this novel is the Warring States period, approximately 2,000 years ago, and it is relatively systematic. It tells the story of the earliest dynasty of China, the Shang Dynasty, about the struggles for faith and power between gods and gods, and between gods and humans, in a novel form. The book provides detailed explanations of the abilities of beings higher than humans, such as immortals and demons, and some weapons beyond human imagination. These forces' wars are described in a way that humans can understand, accept, and comprehend, including but not limited to changing the form of living beings, individual enlargement and reduction, influencing the climate in a certain way or through certain tools, strengthening the body, bringing back the dead body through certain tools, attacking and applying the soul through weapon systems, flying, transferring space at a certain distance, influencing the speed of time flow, etc. The reason why these skills and abilities described in this novel or recorded could be thought about, reflected, and recorded in ancient China is what I mentioned earlier. These memory fragments were engraved in the gods of human ancestors and left as memory nodes. They were the specific memories of the creatures existing in the Shangshu. Or the memory was too profound, and the reason for this was that these skills or technologies were too shocking and powerful for the ancestors of humans. Therefore, this deep fear was engraved and passed down from generation to generation in the genetic memory of human ancestors.
Note: Why do contemporary humans have a deep fear of snakes or some reptiles? Even if they haven't seen or come into contact with them, when they see these species, they will be afraid and even experience a stress response that makes them unable to move. This is because ancient humans were deeply harmed by these creatures, and this fear's genetic fragment has been passed down to this day.
In addition, apart from the special skills and weapons with corresponding memories, this book also systematically describes the images of humanoid creatures in different forms, such as Lei Zhenzi with wings who can fly, Ni Na with three heads and six bodies, Yang Jian with three eyes, and the huge brothers of the Magic Family. These familiar images are considered fictional creatures by human society today. However, if these creatures existed and were recorded, just like the memory of weapons mentioned earlier, they were deeply engraved in the genes. Because these extraordinary creatures were the ones who controlled the weapons we fear, then what were these creatures?