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Episode 2, 5 emperors, 12 islands.

Last time we ended with the reign and eventual passing of the final mythical sovereign, the Yellow Emperor Huang Di in 2598,

B.C. E. Today we'll explore the second stage of China's prehistoric origin story as it begins to

traverse the chasm between mythology and what we begin to consider historic fact.

That is the period of the five great emperors.

As with the four three sovereigns, we have a bit of a historical disagreement over how many

five emperors there actually were. All individual lists of course have the correct number, that

is five, but there is some disagreement over who's in and who's out. In all, we get six main

contenders. So, as with last episode, we'll be fair and take a look at all of them. We start then with the Emperor Shaohao. He's kind of our odd man out in this story as only a minority of sources, albeit a

sizable one, include him as one of the five emperors. We'll discuss more on the

why of that in a little bit.

In the traditional oral mythos,

Shauhau was born of the union of a weaver goddess and the planet Venus

as they floated together along the Milky Way.

As such, it's quite appropriate that his name can be

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