Houtu

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Houtu (Chinese:后土), also Hou Tu or Hou T'u, now Hou Tu Nainai, in Chinese mythology, is the deity of the earth and soil. Houtu is of ambiguous gender.[1]

Han Wudi

Houtu was worshiped by Emperor Wu of Han in 113 BC.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Yang, 135
  2. ↑ "Hou Tu - MSN Encarta". MSN Encarta. MSN. Archived from the original on 2009-10-31. Retrieved 10 November 2008. 

Works cited

  • Yang, Lihui, et al. (2005). Handbook of Chinese Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533263-6

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