Nüwa

Nüwa (Chinese女娲/女娲, Pinyin Nǚwā ), also Nü Wa and Nü Gua, is in the early Chinese mythology after the creation of the world, the creator goddess of the human race. Your husband or brother Fu Xi. Both are shown with a human torso and body of a snake or fish tail than lower body.

Nüwa to invent the music, created man from clay and stabilized the sky. It is often called the " Mistress of the Dark". It belongs to the group of three sublime among Chinese Urkaisern.

Nüwa and Fuxi are collectively, the " inventor" of marriage. They were originally the only beings and did not want to get married because they wanted to not commit incest, but an oracle with two smoke clouds that are united in the air, they saw as a sign that they should marry each other.

When the cosmos was still disorganized, heaven and earth had not yet taken their seats, the directions were reversed, everywhere blazing fire, and at the same time the tide had washed over the country. Nüwa melted rock to mend the sky. From the four feet of the turtle they formed the four cardinal directions, with the ashes of reeds they dammed a the floods and to produce the order on the land, they killed the Black Dragon. Nüwa also repaired one of the pillars that held the sky, which was broken in a fight of the gods. Since the repair is not quite succeed, one of the pillars of heaven is lower. This has the consequence that Chinese rivers flow mainly to the southeast.

In an ancient flood myth experience both as a brother and sister from the derived humanity in the renewed world.