Ramayana · Vol 1
The Cracked Sky
The sky once fell, and a goddess patched it with stones of five colors and rose to the heavens without claiming credit. From that day she only watches from above, when ten suns scorch the earth and when the waters swallow the hills.
- Series
- Shan Hai
- Contents
- 7 chapters, 17,477 words
- Transparency
- SI-assisted work
About this work
Nüwa shapes humans from yellow earth, and when the sky cracks she sets a child on a high rock and says, wait here. Ten suns rise together, Yi draws the red bow given him by the father of the ten suns, and his wife, Heng'e, flies to the moon with the elixir of immortality. A flood drowns the world, Gun is executed for failing, and his son, Yu, is sent by the man who condemned his father. For thirteen years Yu digs, and when he passes the door of his own house he does not dare go in. These are China's oldest myths as a novel, from Pangu to the Shang dynasty, faithfully retold from the Huainanzi, the Shanhaijing, the Shiji and the Liezi.
