3 Nv Wa (nv meant female)

A Heroin Patching up the Sky

A Taoist book recorded Nv Wa’s miracle deeds: In early times the sky looked concave and convex, and spreaded with many big holes. Nv Wa hated the unlovely circumstance and tried to make a difference. She engaged to patch the sky with colorful stones that she successfully melted in a super furnace. There was a more detailed and vivid scenario described in the popular novel The Story of the Stone, saying: Nv Wa had melted colorful stones in the Boundless Mountain Ridge at the Mount Great Wildness. She produced 36,501 lumps of stones with each measured as big as 250 cubic feet. She used 36,500 lumps to patch up the sky, but had left one stone on the spot. Afterward, the living surplus stone went to the human world to perform a touching romance of love and tragedy.

There was another tale about Nv Wa: Because there lived only herself in the world, Nv Wa felt dull and lonely. So she used the mud to mold some clay figurines with the resemblance of herself. A couple of days later, those clay figurines got life. They became husbands and wives, becoming the earliest ancestors.