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Huan Dou 驩兜 was a in Chinese mythology minister of Emperor Yao 堯. He was a descendant of Chi You 蚩尤 and conspired with Gong Gong 共工 against Emperor Yao, so that he was dismissed and exiled to Mt. Chongshan 崇山. The book Shenyijing 神異經 describes him as a weird mixture of a man and different animals that lived somewhere in the south.