Yaoji

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Yaoji (Chinese: 瑶姬; lit. 'Princess Beautiful Jade'),^[1] is a Chinese goddess of Wu Mountain.^[2] A shaman and master herbalist, Yaoji is responsible for the presence of many medicinal herbs on Earth. She is a protective weather goddess who raises and soothes storms. Some sources say that she was a daughter of the Yan Emperor, while later ones incorporate her into the Daoist religion by making her a daughter of the Queen Mother of the West. Yaoji is most well known from two poems, The Ode of Gaotang and The Ode of the Divine Maiden, both of which are attributed to the late Warring States poet Song Yu.