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Portrait of Sun-Shooting Bow: Divine weapon of high antiquity

Sun-Shooting Bow

Divine weapon of high antiquity
Era
Age of Wu and Yao
Also known as
Sun-Falling Bow
Chinese
射日神弓
Grade
Divine weapon of high antiquity
Holder
Hou Yi
In short
The bow Hou Yi drew from a high place to bring down nine suns; Honghuang retellings expand it into a great witch’s weapon.

The story

After the ten suns rose together the plants of the earth were scorched. Hou Yi climbed to high ground, set up the Sun-Shooting Bow, laid his long arrows to the string one after another and aimed at the golden crows in the sky.

The string sounded again and again, and nine burning suns came down one after another, leaving a single sun to light the world. Hou Yi took up his bow and went back to his people, and later carried it to Kunlun to ask for the elixir of deathlessness.

The Sun-Shooting Bow stayed in the human world afterwards, and later accounts keep it in Hou Yi’s old house or among the Wu tribes; it was never again used to shoot a sun from the sky.

Divine weapon of high antiquityHou Yi

Relationship map

Sun-Shooting BowHou YiDijun
Relationship map for Sun-Shooting Bow: Connected — Hou Yi; Connected — Dijun.

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