Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Shennong (the Divine Farmer, Yandi) — the great culture-hero and god of agriculture and medicine in Chinese mythology, the ox-headed sovereign who gave
The Yellow Emperor (Huangdi) — the great culture-hero and legendary ancestor of the Chinese people, who founded civilisation, defeated the war-god Chiyou
Pangu — the primordial giant and creator of the cosmos in Chinese mythology, who hatched from the cosmic egg, separated Heaven from Earth, and whose body
Xi Wangmu, the Queen Mother of the West — the great Chinese goddess of immortality who dwells on Mount Kunlun and tends the Peaches of Immortality that
Fuxi — the great culture-hero and progenitor-god of Chinese civilisation, the serpent-bodied sovereign and consort of Nüwa who gave humankind hunting,
Nüwa — the great mother-goddess and creator of humankind in Chinese mythology, a serpent-bodied goddess who fashioned the first humans from yellow clay
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King — the most famous hero of Chinese literature, the immortal shape-shifting trickster-monkey of Journey to the West, master of
Guanyin — the beloved goddess (bodhisattva) of mercy and compassion in Chinese Buddhism, the Chinese form of Avalokiteshvara who hears the cries of all
The Jade Emperor (Yu Huang) — the supreme ruler of Heaven in Chinese mythology and Daoism, governing Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld and the vast
Doumu — the great mother-goddess of the stars in Chinese Daoism, the “Mother of the Big Dipper,” a many-armed celestial goddess who governs the Dipper
