Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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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
Discover Kotys (Kotyto), the Thracian goddess of orgiastic and ecstatic rites — a deity of fertility and the wild whose festival the Kotyttia was
Discover Bendis, the great Thracian goddess of the hunt, moon and wild — identified with Artemis and so significant that her cult was adopted at Athens,
Discover Sabazios, the sky-father and horseman-god of the Thracians and Phrygians — identified with both Zeus and Dionysus, whose ecstatic mystery-cult
Discover Zalmoxis, the great god of immortality of the Getae and Dacians — the deity who grants eternal life, taught by legend to have been a man who