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Awakening : The Ethics of Human Creation — Why are we born unequal?
Biblical and Greek mythology is that a man was created first, then a woman, and then the first man and the first woman mated and reproduced. Han Chinese mythology is completely different, in that man, woman, and thus the entire human race were created at almost the same time.
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Nüwa (Chinese: 女媧; also read Nügua) is the Nuwa Clan, also known as Nuwa Emperor and Nihi Clan, and commonly known as Nuwa Niangniang (Chinese: 女媧娘娘). The image of Nuwa is that of a human head with a snake’s body.
Guo Pu (Chinese:郭璞, 276–324), was a native of Wenxi County, Hedong Shire (now part of Shanxi Province, China). He was the son of Guo Yuan, a governor of Jianping (Junction of present-day southeast Yichang and Yidu, China) in the Jin dynasty (Chinese: 晉朝; or the Jin Empire, 266–420).
In the year of his birth, the Roman emperor Claudius Tacitus (200–276; full name Marcus Claudius Tacitus; reigned September 25, 275-June 276) was killed by his own troops, and his half-brother, the…