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Nü Wa
- Qinshu Daquan, Folio 14, #2		 女媧 1
琴書大全，第十四卷 #2 2

Nü Wa (or Nü Gua), said to have had a human head but the body of a serpent, was originally considered "the greatest primeval cosmogonic deity", but was later relegated to the position of a minor deity, consort of Fu Xi.3

Nü Wa is not mentioned in Qin Shi or Qin Shi Bu. The biography here is brief, saying that we know she liked the qin because when Fu Xi played, she accompanied him.

女媧生有神聖之德。代宓羲立歸。曰﹕女希氏作笙簧。又曰﹕宓犧置琴，女媧和之。是知女媧亦喜琴焉。

 

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 6170.205 - .208; .206 女媧氏 quotes 司馬貞，補史記，三皇本紀 Sima Zhen's 7th c. CE supplement to Shi Ji. 10.975 三皇 San Huang, quoting Fengsu Tong says she was one of the Three Majesties along with Fu Xi and Shen Nong. (Return)

2 Anne Birrell, Chinese Mythology, An Introduction, p.163 - 165.
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