Pangu
Also known as: P'an-ku
Basic account
He was not killed. He held the sky up for eighteen thousand years until it stayed there on its own, and then he died of it.
Account
In the beginning there was no shape to anything. Over roughly eighteen thousand years the formlessness gathered into an egg, and inside it the opposed principles of yin and yang came into balance, and Pangu woke.
Motifs
- A world built from a body
- Holding up the sky
- Shaped the land while living
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What is disputed
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Sources
- Xu Zheng, Sanwu liji and Wu yun li nianji, 3rd century CE
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