One of these animals is often depicted supporting Kui Xing. A table-carrying child of the Dragon King is one of these animals named Bixi. A snake is often depicted winding around one of these animals that represents the north. The name of that one of the Four Symbols is typically translated as “Black [this animal].” After holes are patched with multicolored stones, one of these animals named Ao has his legs cut off by Nüwa to create four pillars for holding up the heavens. In the comparative mythology section of Primitive Culture, Edward Burnett Tylor discusses the tropes of both elephants and these animals as world-bearing creatures. For 10 points, ancient Chinese divination sometimes made use of the shells of what reptiles? ■END■
ANSWER: turtles [or tortoises; or wū gūi (“ooh gway”); accept Black Tortoise or Black Turtle-Snake or xuánwǔ; accept World-Bearing Turtles or World-Bearing Tortoises]
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