Gonggong

Chinese · deity · primordial · deity

Serpent-bodied water god whose rage broke Mount Buzhou and tilted the heavens.

Domains

water
floods

Powers

Topple the heaven-pillar Mount Buzhou
Unleash catastrophic floodwaters

Epithets

共工
康回

Relations

enemy: Zhurong
descendant of: Zhurong

Sources

Huainanzi, Tianwen chapter, 2nd c. BCE
Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), c. 4th c. BCE–2nd c. CE

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