Chinese creation story

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Chinese Creation Story

Introduction

In trying to explain the origin of the world and mankind , the ancient world was characterized by so many mythologies about gods and goddesses (Giddins 30 . Goddess Nu Wa is credited for creating human beings in Chinese mythology . The name of the goddess varies from one region to another . She may be referred to as Nu Kua , Neu Kwa , Ku Gua , Cang Jing and NY Wa (Mc Combs , par 1 . Feng was her surname and sometimes she could

be referred to as Mixi (Yu Lan , par 2 . She is also recognized as the one who separated the earth from the sky and also coming up with the Chinese land which is also called `the divine land ' She is regarded as the original ancestor of `the divine land ' who lived as an empress and the emperor Fuxi 's younger sister . They are said to have existed in the third millennium BC (Crystal link , par 36 . This essay seeks to find out how goddess Nu Wa created human beings

Her image is viewed differently some say that she had a human head while the rest of the body resembled a snake . Others say that she had an upper body of a very beautiful woman but the lower part was a fish dragon or a snake . Sometimes her image would resemble a woman wearing regalia robes (Mc Combs , par 3

The goddess is described in one of the Chinese earliest dictionaries as...