“The intestines of Nüwa transformed into ten divine beings” — this is an ancient Chinese creation myth, recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: Chapter of the Great Wilderness West.
They are earthenware chambers shaped like the inner flesh of a body — visceral, hollow, and clay-born — intertwined with the annihilated remains of a serpentine form. In a world where myth has faded, they are severed, their entrails cut away, and finally returned to the earth.