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Hou YiChinese Mythology

Hou Yi

Hou Yi — the great divine archer of Chinese mythology who saved the world by shooting down nine of the ten suns scorching the earth, leaving one to give

Aug 23, 20268 min read
Chang'eChinese Mythology

Chang'e

Chang'e — the beloved goddess of the Moon in Chinese mythology, the beautiful immortal wife of the archer Hou Yi who swallowed the elixir of immortality

Aug 23, 202610 min read
Three Pure OnesChinese Mythology

Three Pure Ones

The Three Pure Ones (Sanqing) — the supreme triad of deities at the summit of the Daoist pantheon, the three highest gods (including the deified Laozi)

Aug 23, 20267 min read
ShennongChinese Mythology

Shennong

Shennong (the Divine Farmer, Yandi) — the great culture-hero and god of agriculture and medicine in Chinese mythology, the ox-headed sovereign who gave

Aug 23, 20267 min read
Yellow EmperorChinese Mythology

Yellow Emperor

The Yellow Emperor (Huangdi) — the great culture-hero and legendary ancestor of the Chinese people, who founded civilisation, defeated the war-god Chiyou

Aug 23, 20267 min read
PanguChinese Mythology

Pangu

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

Aug 23, 20269 min read
Xi WangmuChinese Mythology

Xi Wangmu

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

Aug 22, 20267 min read
FuxiChinese Mythology

Fuxi

Fuxi — the great culture-hero and progenitor-god of Chinese civilisation, the serpent-bodied sovereign and consort of Nüwa who gave humankind hunting,

Aug 22, 20267 min read
NuwaChinese Mythology

Nuwa

Nüwa — the great mother-goddess and creator of humankind in Chinese mythology, a serpent-bodied goddess who fashioned the first humans from yellow clay

Aug 22, 20268 min read
Sun WukongChinese Mythology

Sun Wukong

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

Aug 22, 20267 min read