Chin Myth
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- Nu Wa
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Created man out of yellow earth and dragging a cord through mud
Created humans by mating with elder brother (Fu Xi) -- represented as half human half serpents holding a compass (Nu Wa) and a carpenter square (FuXi)
Also seen as repairing the heavens by replacing pols with five colored stones
(later related to gong gong) - Pan Gu
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Born from an egg of chaos(hacked out with ax) he grew taller, earth grew thicker heaven grew higher
Died and earth was made from body - Fu Xi
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credited for
o inventing nets for hunting and fishing
o taught people music
o invented musical instruments
o discovered fire
o taught people to cook
o invented writing
o knotted cords for measuring distance and counting days
o established marriage customs - Fu Xi cont
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o invented eight trigrams (pa-kua)
o said to be born of a oman who stepped in a giant footprint in Thunder Marsh
o By han times, associated with Tai Hao
- Shen Nong (Yan Di)
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o God of agriculture
o Credited with
agri, domesticating animals, extending eight trigrams, discovered medical herbs, invented plow
o later identified with Flame Emperor Yan Di - Yellow Emperor
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portrayed as a warrior god in battles against other gods for supremacy, in later texts he is seen as the principal founder of chinese civilization (Han)
Battled with
o Flame emperor Yan Di
o Chi You
o Kui the monster with one leg
o The four emperors - Yellow emperor attributed with
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o wheeled vehicles
o pottery
o established and regulated rituals
o extended agriculture and husbandry
- Chi You
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o Inventor of metallurgy
o inventor of weapons
o god of war
o fought with Huang Di yellow emperor
o first "rebel"
o said to have bronze head and iron brows - Di Ku
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o inventor of music
o created several types of drums, gongs, flutes, and pipes
o said to be great grandson of Yellow emperor - Can Cong
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o credited with teaching the Chinese people how to cultivate silk
o portrayed as ancestor of later kings of Shu
o worms eat leaves of mulberry trees - productive order of elements (developed by Han times)
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wood
fire
earth
metal
water -
5 directional emperors
Tai Hao -
associated with Fu Xi
o east
o wood
o jupiter
o azure dragon
o assistant Gou Mang
o holds a compass and regulates spring -
Yan Di
Flame Emperor -
associated with Shen Nong
o South
o Fire
o Mars
o vermillion bird
o assistant Zhu Ming
o Holds a steel yard beam and regulates summer -
Huang Di
Yellow Emperor -
o Center
o Earth
o Saturn
o yellow dragon
o assistant is Hou Tu
o Holds a cord and governs four directions - Shao Hao
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o West
o Metal
o Venus
o White tiger
o assistant is Ru Shou
o Holds draftsman square and regulate autumn - Zhuan Xu
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o North
o Water
o Mercury
o Dark warrior (turtle thing)
o Assistant is Xuan Ming
o Holds a steel yard weight and regulates winter - 5 emperors
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East - Tai Hao - spring
South - Yan Di - summer
Center - Huang Di -4 directions
West - Shao Hao - fall
North - Zhuan Xu - winter -
four emperors
Di Ku -
o grandson of Huang Di
o Two wives
- One was mother of Qi ancestor of Shang
- Other was mother of Hou Ji ancestor of Zhou
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four emperors
Yao -
o Noted for well qualified officials
o Did not have son succeed him
o After several tests he chose Shun
o Had two daughters E Huang and and Nu YIng
o married both to Shun
o Eldest son Dan Zhu rebelled against Shun -
four emperors
Shun -
o son of a blind peasant Gu Sou
o Said to have "double pupils"
o Mother died, evil step mother/ siblings
o Fled to bottom of moutain and farmed
o When people helped him their stuff flourished
o Gave rule to Hu (considered founder of Xia dynasty) -
four emperors
The Great Yu -
o Son of Gun (portrayed as dragon)
o Yu cast the Nine Cauldrons
o Married a woman from Tushan
o Had Qi or Kai
o Seen as founder of Xia dynasty - queen mother of the west
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• She resides on Jade Peak in the Kunlun Mountains
• She has the upper body of a human
• She has a leopard’s (or panther’s, or tigers’) tail and teeth of a tiger
• She wears a sheng hair ornament (looks like a small barbell)
• She is associated with immortality
- Archer Yi and Chang E
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o Archer Yi also associated with a goddess, Chang E who is often portrayed as his wife
o Yi and Chang E was exiled to the mortal realm
o Chang E wanted to return to the divine realm
o Chang E has Archer Yi obtain 2 doses of an elixir of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West
o Chang E takes both doses, turns into a toad and rises to the moon
o In later times Chang E is portrayed as a beautiful woman