Chinese
The mythology of China — cosmogony from the cosmic egg of P'an Ku, the celestial bureaucracy of gods and dragon kings, the Eight Immortals, and the Monkey who stormed heaven.
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Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section 2 Magic arrow 2 Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for acc 2 Potiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures 2 Birth of human being from an egg. (Cf. F611.1. 2 First human pair as creators. (Cf. A1270.) 1 Creator with dragon's head 1 Creator with two horns on head 1 Dwarfish creator 1 Creator clothed in bear-skin (or in leaves) 1 Creator with hammer and chisel in hands 1 Creator with sun and moon in hands 1 Creator comes out of chaos 1 Creator offspring of dual powers of nature. (M 1 Creator born from egg 1 Creator's companions: unicorn, phoenix, tortoi 1 Creator as ancestor of heaven and earth 1 Creator's death. (Cf. A192.) 1 Creator's works survive him 1 Supreme god. One god chief of all other gods. 1 God of the living and the dead in the otherwor 1 God with many eyes 1 God with many arms. Siva has ten arms 1 Blind god. Hödhr 1 God in animal form 1 Snake-god 1 Monkey as god 1 God as tortoise 1 Dragon god 1 Ugly god 1