Norse
Sif
golden hair, grain (by later reading)
Shénnóng
Chinese tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- agriculture, medicine
Key myth
The 'Divine Farmer', who taught people the plough and tasted a hundred herbs, in the Huainanzi, finding medicines and poisons.
Place in the family graph
More traditions
Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Shénnóng: earth, harvest and fertility, craft, smiths and making. This is overlap in one area only.