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e. Chinese mythology ( simplified Chinese: 中国神话; traditional Chinese: 中國神話; pinyin: Zhōngguó shénhuà) is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology encompasses a diverse array of myths derived from regional and cultural traditions.
Even today, when a man takes a wife, they hold a fan, which is a symbol of what happened long ago. Pangu. One of the most popular creation myths in Chinese mythology describes the first-born semidivine human Pangu (盤古, "Coiled Antiquity") separating the world egg-like Hundun (混沌, "primordial chaos") into Heaven and Earth.
Chinese mythological geography refers to the related mythological concepts of geography and cosmology, in the context of the geographic area now known as "China", which was typically conceived of as the center of the universe. The "Middle Kingdom" thus served as a reference point for a geography sometimes real and sometimes mythological ...
Houyi: archery deity; married to Chang'e, a moon goddess. Kua Fu: a giant who wanted to capture the sun. Kui Xing: god of examinations and an associate of the god of literature, Wen Chang. Lei Gong: god of thunder. Lung Mo: Chinese woman who became a goddess after raising five infant dragons.
Chinese folk religion. Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) [a] [1] is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, [2] hunting, fishing, domestication, [3] and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC [4] or 2000 BC.
The timeline of Chinese mythology starts with P'an-Ku and ends with Yu the Great, spanning from 36,000 years before the creation of the Earth to circa 2000 BC (time of Yu's rule, when he managed to overcome the Epic Flood ). Some other myths were added outside this initial timespan, such as the myths from the Baxian, or the Eight Immortals ...
Europa (consort of Zeus) Europa on the back of Zeus turned into a bull. A fresco at Pompeii, contemporaneous with Ovid. In Greek mythology, Europa ( / jʊəˈroʊpə, jə -/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē, Attic Greek pronunciation: [eu̯.rɔ̌ː.pɛː]) was a Phoenician princess from Tyre and the mother of King Minos of Crete.
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