Nüwa
c. 400 BCE – 2026 CEattested
Central China
- Chinese
Repaired the sky with melted stone after a pillar of heaven broke, and made the first humans out of yellow earth. The ones she made carelessly became the poor.
Known for
- mending the sky
- creating humanity
- serpent below the waist
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.