# AU CO

**Au Co** was, according to the creation myth of the Vietnamese people, an immortal mountain snow fairy who married Lac Long Quan  (Dragon Lord of Lac), and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bách Việt, ancestors to the Vietnamese people. **Au Co** is often honored as the mother of Vietnamese civilization

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