Cult of Gods

Cháng'é

Chinese tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
the moon
Symbols and attributes
Jade Rabbit; moon palace
Partner
Hòu Yì
The Jade Emperor, a Ming dynasty painting.
The Jade Emperor, a Ming dynasty painting.

Key myth

The woman who took the elixir of immortality and rose to the moon. The Mid-Autumn Festival is associated with her, and the Chinese lunar missions are named Chang'e after her.

Primary sources

  • Huainanzi ch. 6

All sources for the Chinese pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

PángǔFúxīNǚwāYellow EmperorShénnóngHòu YìCháng'éQueen Mother of the WestJade EmperorKitchen GodGuan YuMazuDragon KingsYanluo

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.Hindu

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Cháng'é: the moon. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Thoth

writing, moon, wisdom

Roman

Diana

the hunt, the moon, childbirth

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