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The Legend of Hou-Yi and the Ten Suns

The Legend of Hou-Yi and the Ten Suns. English I- Louise S. McGehee School 2005 By: JaNét, Shannon, and Michelle ( Fark. ). The Legend .

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The Legend of Hou-Yi and the Ten Suns

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  1. The Legend of Hou-Yi and the Ten Suns English I- Louise S. McGehee School 2005 By: JaNét, Shannon, and Michelle (Fark.)

  2. The Legend • Long ago, there were ten suns, who were brothers. They usually came out one at a time, but sometimes they came out in groups. The people in China were suffering because the suns were scorching the earth, and the wild animals were attacking the people, because they could not stand the heat (“One”). (“Hou Yi”)

  3. The Legend cont.. • The townspeople asked the great archer, Hou-Yi to save them. He loaded his quiver with ten arrows, climbed Mount K’un Yun, and began to shoot down the suns, one by one (“One”). (“One”)

  4. The Legend cont… • After Hou-Yi had shot down many of the suns, a wise old man quietly hid one of the arrows. He knew that having too many suns was bad, but having no suns was worse (“Chinese”). (“Mid-Autumn”)

  5. (“Chang-Er.”) Chang’er After Hou-yi shot down the suns, he received an immortality elixir from the Great Mother of the West. She told him to wait for about a year before giving it to Chang’er. Chang’er grew impatient and obsessed with immortality, so she drank the elixir too soon and flew to the moon. She now lives on the moon as the Moon Fairy. She is represented by a rabbit, which was believed to help her fly to the moon(Wang).

  6. Other Legends • Others believed that Hou-Yi and his wife were actually gods who came down to save the people of the village from the terrible heat (“Hou”). (DnDCC.) • They say that after Hou-Yi shot down the suns, he became so full of himself that the other gods punished him to live as a mortal. After this, his wife got angry, drank an immortality potion, and flew to the moon (“Hou”).

  7. (“Photo Gallery 4.”) K’un-Lun Mountains • The K’un-Lun mountains are a mountain range in China. • They are the home of the Great Mother of the West • (“Mid-Autumn”). • No one before Hou-Yi had successfully climbed the mountain. • Before reaching the top, one has to go through horrible storms and freezing weather (Balsanek).

  8. The Legend in China Today • In China there is a festival called the Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival. It takes place on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month (August). At the festival, people gather to look up at the moon when it is supposedly at its biggest and brightest in the night sky. They also eat moon cakes. (“Mid-Autumn”) (Wang)

  9. Similar Myths • Hou-Yi and Chang’er, a couple who represents the sun and moon, are very similar to the Greek god Helios, the god of the sun, and the goddess of the moon, Selene (Helios’ sister.) • Other moon goddesses are Artemis and Hecate. (McCabe “Selene”). • Another mythological husband and wife who are two very different subjects are the Greek god, Uranus, and the goddess, Gaea. Uranus is the sky and Gaea is the earth. (McCabe “GAEA”). (Bergeron)

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