long, long ago there lived a great chinese empress who succeeded her brother the emperor fuki. it was the age of giants, and the empress jokwa, for that was her name, was twenty-five feet high, nearly as tall as her brother. she was a wonderful woman, and an able ruler. there is an interesting story of how she mended a part of the broken heavens and one of the terrestrial pillars which upheld the sky, both of which were damaged during a rebellion raised by one of king fuki's subjects.