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In the beginning there was darkness was darkness everywhere and Chaos ruled. Within the darkness there formed an egg, and inside the egg was the giant Pangu. For aeons, safely inside the egg Pangu slept and grew. When he had grown to a gigantic size he stretched his huge limbs and in doing so broke the egg. The lighter parts of the egg floated upwards to form the heavens and the denser parts sank downwards, to become the earth. And so was formed earth and sky, Yin and Yang. Pangu saw what had happened and he was pleased. But he feared that heaven and earth might meld together again, so he placed himself between then, his head holding up the sky and his feet firmly upon the earth. Pangu continued to grow at a rate of ten feet a day for 18,000 years, so increasing the distance between heaven and earth, until they seemed fixed and secure at 30,000 miles apart. Now exhausted, Pangu went back to sleep and never woke up. Pangu died, and his body went to make the world and all its elements. The wind and clouds were formed from his breath, his voice was thunder and lightning, his eyes became the sun and moon, his arms and legs became the four directions of the compass and his trunk became the mountains. His flesh turned into soil and the trees that grow on it, his blood into the rivers that flow and his veins into paths men travel on. His body hair became the grass and herbs, and his skin the same, while precious stones and minerals were formed from his bones and teeth. His sweat became the dew and the hair of his head became the stars that trail throughout heaven. As for the parasites on his body, these became the diver’s races of the humankind. Although Pangu is dead, some say he is still responsible for the weather, which fluctuates according to his moods.
 * __ How the World was Created (The Chinese Way) __**