Zhuanxu
deity sky Chinese single tradition · 3
Zhuanxu is a deity with the authority to appoint gods to divine offices. He appointed Gou Long, son of Gonggong, as a god of the soil, establishing the earliest known sheshen in the tradition.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 300 BCE
- Attested period
- -300 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in the Huainanzi.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Tǔdìpó, Nuwa, Fuxi, Nü Kua, Shaohao, Leizu, Silkworm Mother, Houtu, Tudigong, Chenghuangshen, Black Dragon, Yellow Emperor
- creator of
- Gou Long
- child of
- Changyi
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Gou Long, a son of Gonggong who was appointed as a god of the soil by Zhuanxu.”
#10595 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The catastrophes were supposedly caused by the battle between the deities Gonggong and Zhuanxu (an event that was mentioned earlier in the Huainanzi)”
#21539 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Leizu had two known sons with the Yellow Emperor named Shaohao and Changyi, with the latter the father of Zhuanxu. Zhuanxu's uncles and his father, the sons of Yellow Emperor, were bypassed and Zhuanxu was selected as heir.”
#29644 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001