Hou Yi's Bow
The red bow of Hou Yi is the weapon of the legendary archer of Chinese myth who shot down nine of the ten suns that once scorched the earth, leaving a single sun to light the day. Each of the ten suns was the child of the goddess Xihe, and when all ten rose together the world began to burn; Hou Yi, a peerless bowman, felled nine of them with arrows tipped against the sun-birds that drew the solar chariot. In the same cycle of tales his skill earned him the elixir of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West, but his wife Chang'e swallowed it and drifted to the moon, and the archer was left