Note 16 — Chapter XIV · Creation Myths and the God and Goddess Cults

Another reference to the mother-goddess crops up in a poem by “the statesman poet, Chu Yuan, 332–295 B.C., who drowned himself”, Professor Giles writes,16 “in despair at his country’s outlook, and whose body is still searched for annually at the Dragon-boat Festival”. The poem in question is entitled “God Questions”, and one question is: