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[diioonysus]

chinese mythology | nǚshén

[kingthcrin]

Chinese Mythology: The Four Symbols (Sì Xiàng) The Four Symbols are four mythological creatures who guard the world in four directions: ↳  Azure Dragon of the East - Wood ↳  Vermilion Bird of the South - Fire ↳  White Tiger of the West - Metal ↳  Black Tortoise of the North - Water

[confunduis]

@fyeahmyths’s summer myth event  ( day 6 )     – —     asian deity (  chinese )  

XIHE   —   ❝  during the old chinese ten-day week, one sun would appear each day, until at the end of the week they all gathered together at the      valley of light  in the east. being a doting mother,      xihe  would wash them, brush their teeth with sunny smiles toothpaste, and put them to bed in the branches of a      giant mulberry tree.  but after a while, the ten suns became bored with this routine and ran off together, causing a terrible      heatwave.  her husband, di-jun, was then ordered by the emperor to keep the naughty suns under control — with      disastrous consequences  for them, but not for us. ❞

[kingthcrin]

Chinese Mythology: ↳  Longmu was a Chinese woman who was deified as a goddess after raising five infant dragons. She and her dragons developed a strong bond for each other, and have thus become an example of filial devotion and parental love, an important virtue in Chinese culture.

[diioonysus]

chinese mythology ⇥ nine tailed fox

Huli jing or jiuweihu are Chinese mythological creatures who can be either good or bad spirits. Nine-tailed foxes appear in Chinese folklore, literature, and mythology, in which, depending on the tale can be a good or a bad omen. During the Han dynasty, the development of ideas about interspecies transformation had taken place in Chinese culture. The idea that non-human creatures with advancing age could assume human form is presented in works such as the Lunheng by Wang Chong. As these traditions developed, the fox's capacity for transformation was shape.