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Fu Hsi

Mythical Chinese emperor who was credited with the invention of I-ching.

He would have reigned between 2852-2737 or 2952-2836 BCE. He would came to life as a divine being with a serpent body.

Sometimes he is represented as leaf-wreathed head growing out of a mountain with the table of trigrams in from of him.

He is the acknowledged inventor of the 8 trigrams (pa-kua) which form the basic of the I-ching hexagrams - kua).

He also domesticated animals, taught his people to cook, to fish with nets, and to hunt with weapons made of iron. He likewise instituted marriage and offered the first open-air sacrifice to heaven.

He was husband of Nu-kua.