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Chinese Mvths 中国神话(二)
Hou Yi Shot the Suns 后羽射日
Long long ago, there were ten suns.
Each day, one of them sets out on its
舍
journey across the sky, but one day all
ten suns set out together.
As a result, the world was
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being destroved by heat until Hou Yi
was sent to save the world
Hou Yi closed his eyes for some
seconds because of the burning sunlight.
Then
n he placed an arow against the
bowstring and drew it to the full
Then he let his arrow go. A
golden crow, one of the ten suns, was
killed and fell down
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Still the earth was
burning.
Nine suns remained.
The watchers were still blind
with the pain of the heat
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Hou Yi continued to kill the
suns one by one.
When the ninth fell from the
sky, Hou Yi was told that the world
needed one sun to give its warmth
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and light.
Thus, the sky became clear and
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blue again. Since then, the only sun
rises in the morning on its journey
across the sky every day.
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