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  2. Nüwa - Wikipedia

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    Nuwa (Zhang Zilin) sacrifices herself to repair heaven and make a heavenly gate to protect heaven from invading demons. [46] Added as a playable Chinese goddess in SMITE. [citation needed] Nuwa is a major character in Shin Megami Tensei V. [citation needed] Nu Wa is a playable character in the Dynasty Warriors series. [citation needed]

  3. Pangu - Wikipedia

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    Pangu or Pan Gu [1] (Chinese: 盤古, PAN-koo) 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 geographic features such as mountains and roaring water.

  4. Fuxi - Wikipedia

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    Pangu was said to be the creation god in Chinese mythology. He was a giant sleeping within an egg of chaos. As he awoke, he stood up and divided the sky and the earth. Pangu then died after standing up, and his body turned into rivers, mountains, plants, animals, and everything else in the world, among which is a powerful being known as Huaxu ...

  5. Snakes in Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    In Chinese mythology, Jiuying (九嬰, "the nine-headed baby") is an ancient monster with nine snake-like heads, capable of spouting water and breathing fire. Its name comes from its cry, which resembles a baby’s wail.

  6. Panhu - Wikipedia

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    The basic Panhu myth is about a dragon-dog who transformed into a man and married a princess. In the myth, there was an old woman in an ancient Chinese king's palace who had ear pain for many years. A royal physician plucked out a small, golden worm from her ear, and placed it inside of a gourd covered with a plate.

  7. List of legendary creatures from China - Wikipedia

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    Feng (mythology), an edible monster that resembles a two-eyed lump of meat and magically grows back as fast as it is eaten. Fenghuang, Chinese phoenix; Fenghuang. Feilian, god of the wind who is a winged dragon with the head of a deer and tail of a snake. Feilong, winged legendary creature that flies among clouds. Fish in Chinese mythology ...

  8. List of Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    Along with Chinese folklore, Chinese mythology forms an important part of Chinese folk religion (Yang et al 2005, 4). Many stories regarding characters and events of the distant past have a double tradition: ones which present a more historicized or euhemerized version and ones which presents a more mythological version (Yang et al 2005, 12–13).

  9. Huaxu - Wikipedia

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    They are said to be creatures that have faces of human and bodies of snakes. [1] [2] Legends of the later Yellow Emperor 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 ...