Chinese deity, Nuwa. Also known as the Queen of Wa. 奴媦
Her reverential name is Wahuang (Chinese: 媧皇; literally: ‘Empress Wa’)
Nuwa has a human-like face but snake-like body.
女 nü ‘woman’ is a common prefix on the names of goddesses. The proper name is 媧 wa or gua. The Chinese character is unique to this name. Birrell translates it as ‘lovely’, but notes that it “could be construed as ‘frog’, which is consistent with her aquatic myth.” She has also been described as a “mythological snail goddess”.
- Created humans with clay
- Brought back order in the universe after its near destruction by repairing the leaking sky with Nüwa created the five coloured stones.
- The inventor of Shenghuang (a kind of reed pide instrument) and gauge
- The creator of Marriage
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