Brother, sister, husband, wife.

Nüwa 女媧 the Chinese creation Goddess had a companion - her brother and husband Fuxi 伏羲.

Together they are worshipped as the ultimate ancestors of all humankind. 

They are represented as half-snake, half-human creatures joined together from the waist, as in this ancient artwork unearthed in Xinjiang province of China in an ancient tomb.

Nuwa created all animals and humans.

Fuxi showed humans how to hunt, fish and herd livestock.

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Chinese Goddess creates mankind and repairs Wall of Heaven!

Nüwa  女媧, the mother, the sister, the repairer, emperor, wife, man and creator - all in all one fine Goddess. She is praised in many songs and stories from far back in the Han Dynasty 206 BCE – 220 CE -  the second imperial dynasty of China.

The Repairer - this is her earliest role - the upkeep and maintenance of the Wall of Heaven.  This was a pretty serious job because if the wall collapsed everything would be annihilated.

The Goddess - the Miao, considered one of the first people to settle in China revere Nüwa as the divine goddess.

Snake Goddess -  considered the daughter of the Jade Emperor Nüwa is also regularly called the Snake Goddess.

The Creator - She was all that existed, she was lonely and began to create animals and on the seventh day she created man by moulding yellow clay. Read more here.

This is only a small part of what Nüwa acheived but she never boasted or expected acclaim even when transporting ghosts to heaven or killing the black dragon or stopping the flood or melting the 5 coloured rocks. What a wonderful Goddess.

Are they weird or wonderful?

Town of books

This town is a bookworms delight having over 30 bookshops including the only bookshop in the UK devoted entirely to poetry. The town has an estimated one million books available to purchase.
We visited Hay on Wye in the 1980's and were so fascinated with all the secondhand and antiquarian books we stayed the night. It was on our journey from London to Caernarvon Castle in Wales in our rented Citroën 2CV. We loved the quiet town and wandered around all the bookstores. Back in those days there was not much night life, now there are many pubs, inns and restaurants.

Other wonderful and weird facts:

- The Hay Festival of Literature runs from 26th May 2011 to 5th June 2011 and has been called the Woodstock of the mind.

- Hay on Wye celebrates with an Arts Festival in November (this year from the 19th to the 21st of November.)

- The town is considered to be in Wales but is partly in England.

- The B & B we stayed in had nylon sheets and did not allow us to have a bath as it was not "bath night"!

- Caernarvon Castle in Wales is connected with Merlin but that is a whole other story.

More Hay on Wye official information

THANKS TO  KiloCompany FOR PHOTO

Mysterious marsupial mole misunderstood - itjaritjari.

Australia has a weird marsupial mole that is blind and deaf and lives under the deserts. So what senses do they use underground?  No one really knows!
If you put one on the sand they quickly "dive in " and disappear. They are small and covered in fur but not many Australians have seen them and they have been difficult to find and study. Since 2004 biologists have worked with the indigenous people who know them.

More information and pictures:
A P Y Land Management Information on Itjaritjari
Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission information on this endangered species

Thanks to adventuregirl10591 for the photo.