At that time, there were ten blazing suns in the sky, and the world was so hot that the ground cracked, the wells dried up, and the rivers were empty.

It was a terrible, terrible drought. To make matters worse, all sorts of beasts started terrorizing the people because of the ten suns: Shiu She, a gigantic snake that can swallow a whole elephant; Ya Yu, a man-eating beast with the body of a snake, the head of a dragon, and the face of a man; Zao Chi, a beast with extremely long teeth; Da Feng, a monster deity in the form of a fearsome predatory bird who can whip up an abnormally strong wind with a flap of its wings; Feng Xi, an enormous double-headed boar; and Jiu Ying, a horrifying water creature with nine heads that can spit both fire and water.

If that wasn't terrifying enough, Jiu Ying emits a sound that is exactly like a baby's wail, hence the name. Hou Yi was sent to kill these mythological creatures, and with his godlike archery skills, he pierced all of them through the heart, all except Feng Xi, which he shot through the leg to keep him alive.

As the wife of the thunder god, Lei Gong, she provides the visible flashes of light in the stormy sky to accompany the deep, rumbling sound of thunder that her husband produces on his drum.

Erlang Shen is the Chinese god of engineering tasked with keeping the villages safe from annual flooding. He has a third eye in the middle of his forehead that he can use to see the difference between lies and the truth.

Chinese mythology includes two different backstories for Erlang Shen that are commonly told. In one story, Erlang Shen is the son of a goddess and a mortal man.

In the other, he is the son of an engineer that achieves immortality after saving the village from a river dragon that causes periodic floods.

If they discover a demon lurking about, they capture it and feed it to their pet tigers. Ji Gong, the Mad Monk, was a Chinese folk hero with a reputation for being a rule-breaker.

He is a matchmaker, but is also responsible for recording all marriages for posterity. Even today, people look to Yue Lao when seeking a spouse and romantic couples implore him to guide their love stories.

According to an ancient legend, she returned the Yellow River to its original course to end a great and devastating flood.

The Chinese god of literature and culture, Wenchang Wang is a favorite deity among students, scholars, and writers alike.

A kindly, elderly man, Wenchang Wang is thought to have been a real person, a warrior who selflessly gave his life to save the emperor.

His benevolence led to his immortality. She brought hardship to humans so they held elaborate ceremonies and festivals to banish her from their communities.

Legend has it her children appeared in the sky one at a time until a fateful day when they all went out together. Their immense heat threatened to scorch the Earth and the legendary archer Hou Yi had to shoot down nine of the ten suns in order to save mankind.

A controversial figure in Chinese mythology, much of Jiutian Xuannu power is tied into her sexual appetite. Jiutian Xuannu balances her sexual energy by overseeing warfare as well, for as an ancient author explained, both love and war can be a renewal process or a death, depending on how the event is handled.

Lu Ban is considered a folk hero in Chinese culture, and the patron saint of builders and contractors. So distraught was he at the scorching of the earth by his children, Di Jun supplied the arrows that Hou Yi, the legendary archer, used to shoot down nine of the ten suns.

Di Jun is married to the sun goddess, Xihe, and the moon goddess, Changxi. Guanyin The goddess of mercy and compassion, Guanyin is a key figure in many ancient and contemporary Chinese myths and legends.

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