Chiyou
Chinese · deity · mythic prehistory · Recorded classification
Zhuolu is the founding war of the Chinese people as the tradition tells it, and the registry held one side of it. Chiyou is also the figure the Miao and Hmong claim as an ancestor, which makes the battle a founding story for two peoples with opposite verdicts on its outcome — the corpus carries ten Hmong records and, until now, neither Chiyou nor the connection. The fog is his signature and is the reason the tradition credits Huangdi with inventing the south-pointing chariot: a navigation instrument invented to fight a weather weapon.
Domains
- war
- metallurgy
Relations
- killed by: HuangdiThe edge is written one way because the existing Huangdi record cannot be given a reciprocal from here; the defeat is nonetheless the defining fact of both.Reference treatment of the Battle of Zhuolu, in which the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou after ten years. (secondary)
Sources
- Chiyou is the war deity and leader of the Jiuli who fought Huangdi at the Battle of Zhuolu for ten years, using fog to blind the enemy, and was finally defeated.: Reference treatments of Chiyou and of the Battle of Zhuolu. (secondary)