Xihe (deity)

Xihe (deity)

In Chinese mythology, Xihe (Chinese: 羲和; Pinyin: Xīhé) is a Chinese sun goddess. The wife of Emperor Jun, she was once the 'mother' of ten suns, in the form of Three-legged birds, residing in a mulberry tree in the eastern sea. Each day one of the sun birds would be rostered to travel around the world on a carriage driven by Xihe.

Folklore also held that, at around 2170 BC, all ten sun birds came out on the same day, causing the world to burn; Houyi the archer saved the day by shooting down all but one of the sun birds. (See Mid-Autumn Festival#Stories of the Mid-Autumn Festival for variants of this legend.)

References

* [http://solar-heliospheric.engin.umich.edu/hjenning/Chinesemyths.html Chinese myths]


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