Xiangliu
Xiangliu (/ʃæŋ.ljuː/), known in the Classic of Mountains and Seas as Xiangyao (/ʃæŋ.jaʊ/), is a venomous nine-headed snake monster that brings floods and destruction in Chinese mythology.
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An image of Xiangliu from Japan's Edo period | |||||||||||
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| Chinese | 相柳 (相栁) | ||||||||||
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| Xiangyao | |||||||||||
| Chinese | 相繇 | ||||||||||
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| Vietnamese name | |||||||||||
| Vietnamese alphabet | Tương Liễu, Tương Lưu? | ||||||||||
| Hán-Nôm | 相柳 | ||||||||||
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| Hangul | 상류 | ||||||||||
| Hanja | 相柳 | ||||||||||
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| Kanji | 相柳 | ||||||||||
| Hiragana | そうりゅう | ||||||||||
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Xiangliu may be depicted with his body coiled on itself. The nine heads are arranged differently in different representations. Modern depictions resemble the hydra with each head on a separate neck. Older wood-cuts show the heads clustered on a single neck, either side-by-side or in a stack three high, facing three directions.
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