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Myths and Legends of China: Chapter III. The Fashioner of the Universe

Chinese FolkloreChinese MythologyComparative Religion

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The most conspicuous figure in Chinese cosmogony is P’an Ku. He it was who chiselled the universe out of Chaos. According to Chinese ideas, he was the offspring of the original dual powers of Nature, the yin and the yang (to be considered presently), which, having in some incomprehensible way produced him, set him the task of giving form to Chaos and “making the heavens and the earth.” Some accounts describe him as the actual creator of the universe—“the ancestor of Heaven and earth and all…

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