Editing Three-legged crow (section)

{{short description|Mythical bird}}
[[File:太阳神鸟金饰_Golden_Sun_Bird.png|thumb|[[Golden Sun Bird|Sun and Immortal Birds Gold Ornament]] by ancient Shu people. The center is a sun pattern with twelve points around which four Three-legged crows fly in the same counterclockwise direction, [[Shu (kingdom)|Ancient Kingdom of Shu]].]]
The '''three-legged''' (or '''[[tripedalism|tripedal]]''') '''crow''' is a [[Legendary creature|mythological creature]] in various [[mythology|mythologies]] and arts of [[East Asia]]. It is believed to inhabit and represent the [[Sun]].

Evidence of the earliest bird-Sun motif or totemic articles were excavated around 5000 BCE in China. This bird-Sun totem heritage was observed in later [[Yangshao culture|Yangshao]] and [[Longshan culture]]s.<ref>[http://www.imperialchina.org/Pre-history.html Chinese Prehistory]</ref> Also, in Northeast Asia, artifacts of birds and phoenix observed to be a symbol of leadership was excavated from around 5500 BCE in [[Xinle culture|Xinle]] culture and later [[Hongshan culture|Hongshan]] culture from Liao river basin.<ref>{{cite book|title=Shamanism and the Origin of States: Spirit, Power, and Gender in East Asia |author=Sarah Milledge Nelson |date=2019}}</ref>

The Chinese have several versions of crow and crow-Sun tales. But the most popular depiction and myth of the Sun crow is that of the Yangwu or Jinwu, the "'''golden crow'''".<ref>[https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/yatagarasu-the-three-legged-crow-and-its-possible-origins/ Yatagrarasu: The three-legged crow and its possible origins]</ref> It has also been found figured on ancient coins from [[Lycia]] and [[Pamphylia]].<ref name="Volker, T. 1975 39">{{cite book|author=Volker, T. |title=The Animal in Far Eastern Art and Especially in the Art of the Japanese |publisher=Brill |year=1975|page=39}}</ref>