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Myths and Legends of China: Chapter VII. Myths of the Waters

Chinese FolkloreChinese MythologyComparative Religion

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The dragons are spirits of the waters. “The dragon is a kind of being whose miraculous changes are inscrutable.” In a sense the dragon is the type of a man, self-controlled, and with powers that verge upon the supernatural. In China the dragon, except as noted below, is not a power for evil, but a beneficent being producing rain and representing the fecundating principle in nature.

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