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Chinese Pantheon

Chinese

Name Date

1. Who's who

Write the letter of each figure's role next to their name.

  1. 1.Fuxi
  2. 2.Guanyin
  3. 3.Jade Emperor
  4. 4.Nuwa
  5. 5.Pangu
  6. 6.Sun Wukong
  7. 7.Xi Wangmu
  8. 8.Chang'e
  • A.trickery, strength, fighting
  • B.immortality, peaches, the west
  • C.mercy, compassion, healing
  • D.moon, beauty, immortality
  • E.creation, humanity, marriage
  • F.heaven, order, bureaucracy
  • G.creation, separation of heaven and earth, primordial being
  • H.culture-founding, the Eight Trigrams, fishing and hunting

2. Family and relationships

Fill in each blank with a name from the word bank.

Word bank: Chang'e · Fuxi

  1. 1. is a sibling of Nuwa.
  2. 2. is the spouse of Hou Yi.

3. Short answers

  1. 1. What was Fuxi associated with, and which symbols help you recognise Fuxi?

  2. 2. What was Guanyin associated with, and which symbols help you recognise Guanyin?

  3. 3. Retell “Journey to the West” in two or three sentences. Who is involved, and what changes by the end?

  4. 4. Retell “Hou Yi Shoots the Suns” in two or three sentences. Who is involved, and what changes by the end?

Answer key: Chinese Pantheon

1. Who's who

  1. 1. Fuxi: H
  2. 2. Guanyin: C
  3. 3. Jade Emperor: F
  4. 4. Nuwa: E
  5. 5. Pangu: G
  6. 6. Sun Wukong: A
  7. 7. Xi Wangmu: B
  8. 8. Chang'e: D

2. Family and relationships

  1. 1. Fuxi
  2. 2. Chang'e

3. Short answers (guidance)

  1. 1. culture-founding, the Eight Trigrams, fishing and hunting. Symbols: the eight trigrams (bagua), a carpenter's square, serpent's tail. (mythosatlas.com/deities/fuxi)
  2. 2. mercy, compassion, healing. Symbols: willow branch, vase of pure water, lotus. (mythosatlas.com/deities/guanyin)
  3. 3. The legendary pilgrimage of the monk Tang Sanzang and his disciples (including Sun Wukong) to retrieve sacred Buddhist scriptures. (mythosatlas.com/stories/journey-to-west)
  4. 4. When ten suns appeared in the sky, scorching the earth, the archer Hou Yi shot down nine of them to save humanity. (mythosatlas.com/stories/archer-yi)

Generated from the Mythos Atlas catalog. Traditions vary between sources; accept well-supported alternatives.