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Myths and Legends of China Mindmap
Myths and Legends of China Mindmap
Myths and Legends of China Mindmap
Ancestors
Ancestor Worship - Most important Family in 3 parts Contemporaries
Sac is representative of Chaos (Wonton), Descendants
but physically similar to a lymph-node
Want worship, ritual and notice from
PanGu grew between the light and dark Light rose, Dark Sank and each day the descendants in MALE line
and eventually died, creating the universe
Sac Theory Dead have personalities
distance between the two objects grew
from his body. larger and larger Many were human and deified
A Sac grew, pulsated and eventually burst
"Translated" by rising up to heaven in the
Gods presence of thousands of people Worshipped in Taiwan/Fujian areas
Chinese Popular Religion Matsu - Brings fish and protects against Typhoon
Kneeling down on the banks of the yellow
river and making people out of the yellow
Bureaucrats and aristocracy (those made from the clay) earth, got frustrated and 'whipped sand Male or Female (orig. Female) who can
Human world divided into two halves go into a trance and either cross into
Everyone Else (the grains of sand) into heaps' and animated all of them
other world or channel other spirits
Yin: Dark, Feminine, Negative Shen Nong (Lit. Divine farmer) starts agriculture
Yang: Light, Masculine, Positive Yellow Emperor (Huang Diyi) First Imperial Ruler
Cultural Heroes Yu - Conquered the great flood by Not to be confused with Huang Di YI
First Emperor
draining china
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