Nuying

Chinese · mortal · mythic prehistory · mortal

Younger daughter of the sage-king Yao and, with her elder sister Ehuang, a wife of Shun. The two sisters drowned in the Xiang River in grief at Shun's death and became its goddesses (the Xiang Fei), invoked in the Chuci. Mortal-tier by descent from the mortal Yao; godhood by apotheosis.

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