Norse
Ymir
first giant, raw material of the world
Fúxī
Chinese tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- hunting, writing the trigrams, marriage
- Symbols and attributes
- Square; trigrams
- Partner
- Nǚwā
Key myth
A culture hero credited with inventing the eight trigrams, nets and cooking. Han dynasty reliefs show him with a serpent's tail, entwined with Nüwa.
Where sources differ or caution applies. The pair as brother and sister, married, is first recorded in the Tang dynasty; earlier texts treat them separately.
Place in the family graph
More traditions
Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Fúxī: creation and first beings, wisdom, writing and divination. This is overlap in one area only.