Huaxu ( zh, t=華胥, first=t, p=Huáxū) is a Chinese goddess and mother of the gods

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Fuxi Fuxi or Fu Hsi ( zh, c=伏羲) is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, hunting, fishing, domestication, and cooking, as well as the Cangjie syste ...

Legend

According to legend, the creation god

Pangu Pangu or Pan Gu (also sometimes spelled Peng Gu and P’an-ku) ( zh, t=盤古, ) is a primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology and in Taoism. According to legend, Pangu separated heaven and earth, and his body later became ge ...

died after standing up, and his body turned into rivers, mountains, plants, animals, and everything else in the world, among which was a powerful being known as Huaxu. Huaxu suddenly became pregnant with twins Fuxi and Nüwa after stepping in a footprint left by the thunder god, Lei Shen. They are said to be creatures that have faces of human and bodies of snakes. Legends of the later

Yellow Emperor The Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch, or Huangdi ( zh, t=黃帝, s=黄帝, first=t) in Chinese, is a mythical Chinese sovereign and culture hero included among the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. He is revered as ...

state that, during a period of fasting, the emperor dreamed of Huaxu's mythical kingdom, "beyond the reach of ship or chariot or any mortal foot...only the soul could travel so far." The residents of this heavenly place "rode space as though walking the solid earth, and slept on the air as though on their beds...mountains and valleys did not trip their feet, for they made only journeys of the spirit."

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