Xihe
Chinese · deity · mythic · deity
The registry held Houyi, who shot nine suns, and not the mother of the suns he shot — a gap of the same kind as Ra without Apep, and with the same effect: the famous act has no counterparty in the corpus. No relation is written between them here, because the tradition does not give the archer and the goddess a stated one and inventing an enmity would be worse than stating the absence. What is certain is that nine of her ten children are dead by his hand, and the tenth is the sun.
Domains
- the sun
- timekeeping
Sources
- Reference treatment of Xihe, the ten suns and the Fusang.