Nü Kua is the Chinese divine foremother of humans, Who repaired the sky and invented marriage. Some tales make Her the wife of Her older brother, Fu-hsi, one of the first sovereigns, whom She later succeeded. She was said to have created humans from yellow clay, but grew bored before She finished, and left some of them more blob-like. This is explained that the more finished ones represent the nobility, the less finished ones the poor.