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“Qiu lai” (Li He), 61 Shang-ti, 17
Queen Mother of the West. Tian, 14
See Wang-mu Suanni (dragon type), 55
Qu Yuan (poet), 59–60 Sun (ancient healer), 49–51
Sutherland, Angus, 57
religion/belief systems
Buddhism, 21 Tang dynasty (ca. 618–906
Confucianism, 20–21 CE), 61
early, 18 Taoism, 18–19, 21, 36
Taoism, 18–19, 21, 36 influence on Chinese myths,
See also worship rituals 20
Rigor Mortis (film), 68 Taotie (dragon type), 55
river god (Ho Po), 41 Tao Tie (monster), 66–67, 68
Taowu (monster), 67
Sanders, Tao Tao Liu ten suns, myth of, 38–39, 45
on dragons, 47, 48–49 Three Divine Sovereigns,
on the magic pearl, 52–53 29–31
on Nuwa, 28 Three Kingdoms period (220–
on Pangu, 26 280 CE), 16
Shang dynasty (ca. 1600– Tian (sky god), 14
1050 BCE), 11–12
Shang-ti (Jade Emperor, Wang-mu (Queen Mother of
supreme deity), 17–18, 20, the West), 16, 20, 36
36 war, god of (Kuan-ti), 14
Four Dragons myth and, 55, water god (Gong-gong), 29
56 wealth, god of (Caishen), 14
Taoism and, 19 Wei Gu, 14–16
Sharp, Mark, 63 worship rituals, 18, 58
Shen-nong (Divine Sovereign), celebrating Nuwa, 59
8, 29, 31 Confucianism and, 20–21
“Shen xian qu” (Li He), 61 of Jade Emperor, 17
Shun (august emperor), 33–34
sky gods Xirang (“swelling earth”), 38
Jun, 45 Xu Zheng, 24
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