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Chinese Mythology:     more books (101)

Legends of Ten Chinese Traditional Festivals (Chinese/English edition) by He Wei, 2002-01-01 The Dance of the Caterpillars (English, Chinese and English Edition) by Adele Marie Crouch, 2010-08-25 One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 by James Z. Lee, Feng Wang, 2001-12-21 Chinese and Japanese Myths (Myths from Around the World) by Jen Green, 2010-01 Tian Wen: A Chinese Book of Origins by Yuan Ch'u, 1986-10-01 Ancient Chinese Fables by Yang Xianyi, 1996-01-01 Kuan Yin: Myths and Revelations of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion (Chinese Classics) by Martin Palmer, 1995-01-25 Mitologia China/ Chinese Mythology: Los Cuatro Dragones/ the Four Dragons (Historietas Juveniles: Mitologias/ Jr. Graphic Mythologies) (Spanish Edition) by Tom Daning, 2009-04-30 Ancient Chinese Civilization (Ancient Civilizations and Their Myths and Legends) by Todd Van Pelt, Rupert Matthews, 2009-09 Chinese Mythology Library of the Worldsc (Library of the world's myths & legends) (Spanish Edition) by Anthony Christie, 1998-11 Ancient Chinese by Sonia Cheng, 2000-05-01 The Temples of Anking and Their Cults: A Study of Modern Chinese Religion by John Knight Shryock, 1973-06 Chinese Myths & Legends (Ardagh, Philip. World Book Myths & Legends Series.) by Philip Ardagh, 2001-08

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41. Chinese Mythology
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42. Chinese Mythology -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
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    Extractions: document.write(''); Search Site: With all of these words With the exact phrase With any of these words Without these words Home My Britannica CREATE MY Chinese myth... NEW ARTICLE ... SAVE Table of Contents: Chinese mythology Article Article Related Articles Related Articles External Web sites External Web sites Citations LINKS Related Articles Aspects of the topic Chinese mythology are discussed in the following places at Britannica. major reference in Chinese literature: Literary use of myths ...as the literatures of certain other world cultures do, great epics embodying mythological lore. What information exists is sketchy and fragmentary and provides no clear evidence that an organic mythology ever existed; if it did, all traces have been lost. Attempts by scholars, Eastern and Western alike, to reconstruct the mythology of antiquity have consequently not advanced beyond probable... creation myths and doctrines in creation myth: Creation from the cosmic egg ...existence, the realization of a new mode of being, as breaking the shell of the egg. Similar references to creation through the symbol of the egg are found in the Orphic texts of the Greeks and in Chinese myths.

43. Chinese Mythology SelectSmart.com Free Mythology Personality Test
    Chinese Mythology Mythology personality test, selector quiz 2 votes. Vote on results page. 1,855 results provided. Created December 2007.  
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44. Chinese Mythology - Mythical Creatures Guide
    I have a list here of known Chinese Mythical creatures. I will add them accordingly in time. Feel free to fill them out yourselves as well. (Note this page will be  
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45. Shijin (Shishin) - Four Legendary Chinese Creatures Protecting The Four Compass
    Exerpt from “Chinese Mythology An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend” by Derek Walters, ISBN 1855380803 The legendary architect of the universe.  
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    Extractions: At the heart of Chinese mythology are four spiritual creatures (Sì Shòu 四獸) four celestial emblems each guarding a direction on the compass. In China, the four date back to at least the 2nd century BC. Each creature has a corresponding season, color, element, virtue, and other traits. Further, each corresponds to a quadrant in the sky, with each quadrant containing seven seishuku, or star constellations (also called the

46. Chinese Mythology - Research Papers - Sweeteenchick
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    Extractions: Research Papers and Essays for All Search words.comment_error_title="A comment heading is required."; words.comment_error_text="A comment is required."; words.enter_query="No query entered!"; We have many premium term papers and essays on Chinese Mythology. We also have a wide variety of research papers and book reports available to you for free. You can browse our collection of term papers or use our search engine Mythology is a collection of myths or the study of ancient traditional stories of gods or heroes, giving an explanation to an unexplained event. For Plato, the fist known user of the term, muthologia meant know more than the telling of stories (Kirk 8). Mythology is an important aspect to the world, today. Through the study of myths help us develop an idea of what the cultures were like. It includes hints that exhibit how they lived their lives. Myth is its serious purpose and its importance to the culture (Lansford 1). Every culture has its own myth that explains about the nature of that particular culture. The Chinese culture has been around for many centuries, its myths have accumulated into varies stories of gods and their culture. China is the world's oldest continuous civilization (Cotterel 9). Evidence show the earliest Chinese civilization to be found around 1650 B.C. The beginnings of Chinese mythology, started around the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Influenced by alchemist ideas, Taoist and Buddhist superstitions, various writers created storied about their enigmatic surroundings. The beginning of the Chinese civilization is based on mythology. One of the creation myths is about the beginning of the world. In it, the world began as an egg and cracking open, the top of the shell grew to be the sky, the lower shell became the Earth, and in the middle stepped a man named P'an-gu. Mythology of the ancient Chinese is apparent through art, music and literature. Since, there is no explanation of how the Chinese civilization began; mythology has been a way of explanation to the Chinese culture and other cultures around the world, today.

47. Glbtq >> Literature >> Chinese Mythology
    Chinese mythology is rich in stories about homosexuality. The early Chinese believed in a celestial realm known as T'ien (Heaven) and a nether world known as the Huang Ch  
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    Extractions: page: The early Chinese believed in a celestial realm known as T'ien (Heaven) and a nether world known as the Huang Ch'un (Yellow Springs), but they apparently conceived of them only in the vaguest of terms, and certainly never as abodes of the blessed and the damned respectively. According to various texts, each human being was supposed to have two souls: the p'o , or anima, produced at the time of conception, and the hun , or animus, which was joined to the p'o at the moment of birth. After death, the hun ascended to Heaven, while the

48. Chinese Mythology
    Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religions that have been passed down in oral or written form. There are several aspects to Chinese mythology  
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49. Chinese Mythology
    China is an old nation, and its ancient mythology is very rich and colorful. PreQin books such as Shanhaijing (The Classic of Mountains and Seas), Zhuanzhuan (The Zuo Commentaries  
    http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_41604.htm

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