Nv Wa, Patches up the Sky(女娲补天)

Nv Wa(sometimes Nv Kua) was a female godess in Chinese lengend, she has a snake tails. and she was the creator of mankind.

After Pangu create the world, the earth was a beautiful place with blossoming trees and flowers, and full of animals, birds, fish and all living creatures. But as Nv Wa wandered about it Nv Wa felt very lonely. She pick up a handful of yellow clay near Yellow River, mixed it with water and molded a figure in her likeness. As she blowing to it, the figure came alive -the first human being. Nv Wa was so pleased with her creation that she went on making more figures both men and women. They danced around her cheerily and loneliness was dispelled.

Nv Wa is defined in China earliest dictionary by the philologist Xu Shen ( c.58-147) as being " in charge of breeding of all living things", so possibly her origin is associated with fertility.

Nv Wa was the sister and then the wife of Fu Xi, the legendary ruler who was credited with teaching man to domesticate animals and to have taught people matrimony.

Second, Nv Wa patched up the sky.

Two deities, called in Gong Gong, the God of Water and Zhu Rong, the God of Fire, were in battle. They fought all the way from heaven to earth, causing turmoil everywhere. The God of Fire won, and in anger the God of Water struck his head against Buzhou Mountain (a mythical peak supposed to be northwest of the Kunlun range in southern Xinjiang ). The mountain collapsed and down came the big pillar that held heaven from earth. Half the sky fell in, leaving a big black hole. The earth cracked open, forests went up in flames, floodwaters sprouted from beneath the earth and dragons, snakes and fierce animals leaped out at the people. Many people were drowned and more were burned or devoured. It was an unprecedented disaster.

Nv Wa was grieved that mankind which she had created undergo such suffering. She decided to mend the sky and end this catastrophe. She melted together five colored stones and with the molten mixture patched up the sky. Then she killed a giant turtle and used its four legs as four pillars to support the fallen part of the sky. She caught and killed a dragon and scared other beasts away. The she gathered and burned a huge quantity of reeds and with the ashes stopped the flood from spreading, so that the people could live happily again.

After disaster, the sky slanted to the northwest and the earth to the southeast, so since then, the sun, the moon and all the stars turn towards the west and all the rivers run southeast.

So Nv Wa was deemed as the mother of mankind, specially, the mother of Chinese.