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  2. Yatagarasu - Wikipedia

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    Yatagarasu (八咫烏) is a mythical crow [1] and guiding god in Shinto mythology. He is generally known for his three-legged figure, and his picture has been handed down since ancient times. [1] The word means "eight-span crow" [2] and the appearance of the great bird is construed as evidence of the will of Heaven or divine intervention in ...

  3. Three-legged crow - Wikipedia

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    The sanzuwu in a disc representing the sun (top row: right) is one of the twelve ornaments which decorates the Imperial garments in China.. In Chinese mythology and culture, the three-legged crow is called the sanzuwu (simplified Chinese: 三足乌; traditional Chinese: 三足烏; pinyin: sān zú wū; Cantonese: sam 1 zuk 1 wu 1; Shanghainese: sae tsoh u) and is present in many myths.

  4. Xihe (deity) - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of Xihe, 19th century. Xihe (Chinese: 羲和; pinyin: Xīhé; Wade–Giles: Hsi-ho), was a solar deity in Chinese mythology.One of the two wives of Di Jun (along with Changxi), she was the mother of ten suns in the form of three-legged crows residing in a mulberry tree, the Fusang, in the East Sea.

  5. Cattle of Helios - Wikipedia

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    Helios, who in Greek mythology is the god of the Sun, is said to have had seven herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head. [3] In the Odyssey, Homer describes these immortal cattle as handsome (ἄριστος), wide-browed (εὐρυμέτωπος), fat, and straight-horned (ὀρθόκραιρος). [4]

  6. Hou Yi - Wikipedia

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    The poem tells the story of Hou Yi, who was sent by the Emperor to reform the people of Xia. He was a skilled archer and hunter, and he used his skills to rid the world of many monsters and pests. However, he also became arrogant and tyrannical, and he eventually killed Hebo, the god of Yellow River and took his wife Luoshen as his own.

  7. Rainbow crow - Wikipedia

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    The story of the Rainbow Crow is a supposed Lenape legend, symbolizing the value of selflessness and service. However, the Lenape origins of this myth are denied by the Lenape-Nanticoke Museum, which attributes the myth to a recent modification of a Cherokee story known as the "First Fire".

  8. Helios - Wikipedia

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    Helios' most notable role in Greek mythology is the story of his mortal son Phaethon. [2] In the Homeric epics, his most notable role is the one he plays in the Odyssey, where Odysseus' men despite his warnings impiously kill and eat Helios's sacred cattle that the god kept at Thrinacia, his sacred island. Once informed of their misdeed, Helios ...

  9. Iroquois mythology - Wikipedia

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    Hah-gweh-di-yu shapes the sky and creates the Sun from his mother's face saying, "You shall rule here where your face will shine forever." However, Hä-qweh-da-ět-gǎh sets the great darkness in the west to drive down the Sun. Hah-gweh-di-yu then takes the Moon and stars, his sisters, from his mother's breast and places them to guard the night ...