How to use の如く.


> 集められた魔力、剥離された精神が残留し、 **山は禿げ山の如く訪れたモノを食らうだろう** 。
>
> Gathered Magic, The separated souls stay behind, The mountain eats those
> that visit, just like a bald mountain.

I have trouble understanding 如く.  
I know it's an adverb and it means=Similar But, I do not think it's modifying
訪れたモノ.  
I think that it could be rewritten like this:

> 山は,禿げ山の如く,訪れたモノを食らうだろう。

Am I wrong?




「[如]{ごと}く」 is an auxiliary verb, not an adverb, but since it is in the
[連用形]{れんようけい}, it **_functions_** adverbially. (The dictionary form is 「如し」,
of course.)

「～～の如く」 means 「～～のように」, expressing how similar one thing is to another.

> 「山は[禿]{は}げ山の如く[訪]{おとず}れたモノを[食]{く}らうだろう」
>
> = "The mountain, just like a bald mountain, will devour all who visit it."

「禿げ山の如く」 modifies 「食らう」 here.

> "I think that it could be rewritten like this:
>
> 山は,禿げ山の如く,訪れたモノを食らうだろう。
>
> Am I wrong?"

It **_could_** be if you insisted, but why would you? Basically, no one would
be confused by this sentence without the commas.




「[如]{ごと}く」 is an auxiliary verb, not an adverb, but since it is in the
[連用形]{れんようけい}, it **_functions_** adverbially. (The dictionary form is 「如し」,
of course.)

「～～の如く」 means 「～～のように」, expressing how similar one thing is to another.

> 「山は[禿]{は}げ山の如く[訪]{おとず}れたモノを[食]{く}らうだろう」
>
> = "The mountain, just like a bald mountain, will devour all who visit it."

「禿げ山の如く」 modifies 「食らう」 here.

> "I think that it could be rewritten like this:
>
> 山は,禿げ山の如く,訪れたモノを食らうだろう。
>
> Am I wrong?"

It **_could_** be if you insisted, but why would you? Basically, no one would
be confused by this sentence without the commas.

