shrinemaidens: EAST ASIAN MYTHOLOGY MEME: [3/9] CHINESE GODS AND GODDESSES | XIHE Xihe or Hsi-ho [羲和

shrinemaidens:EAST ASIAN MYTHOLOGY MEME: [3/9] CHINESE GODS AND GODDESSES | XIHEXihe or Hsi-ho [羲和] was a sun goddess in Chinese mythology. One of the two wives of Emperor Jun (along with Changxi), she was the “mother” of ten suns, in the form of three-legged birds. They resided in a mulberry tree in the eastern Fusang sea. Each day Xihe bathed one of her children in the river; one would fly up into the sky and be the Sun for each day. Folklore also held that (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. -- source link

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