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After the world was shaped and moulded by the efforts of the giant Pángǔ (please see In the Beginning for that story), it became a beautiful and lovely place that creatures of all sorts could call home. But, alas, it was a lonely place bereft of the sounds of laughter. For, in this brave new world, there were as yet neither women nor men.
At this time, a single, solitary goddess roamed the face of the planet. Her name was Nǚwā. Her upper body resembled that of a maiden, but her lower half was that a large serpent. The goddess hadn’t legs with which to walk; instead, she slithered across the earth using her powerful tail. The goddess Nǚwā lamented her aloneness. She longed eagerly for companionship.
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