ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -His eyes became the sun and moon, his blood formed rivers, his hair grew into trees and plants, his sweat turned to rivers, and his body became soil. The human race, moreover, evolved from parasites that infested Pan Gu’s body. These creation myths date from the 3rd to the 6th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Chinese mythology, the goddess Nüwa repaired the fallen pillars holding up the sky, creating human beings either before or after. The ancient Chinese believed in a square earth and a round, domelike sky supported by eight giant pillars (cf. the European ideas of an axis mundi).

Detailed explanation-3: -According to legend, at the beginning, there was nothing in the universe except a formless chaos known as (one line), the beginning and the whole. Then Pangu, the primitive giant, awoke from the chaos. He separated the Earth and the Sky with his axe so we have (two lines)the world Pangu created.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pangu is usually depicted as a primitive, hairy giant who has horns on his head. Pangu began creating the world: he separated yin from yang with a swing of his giant axe, creating the earth (murky yin) and the sky (clear yang).

Detailed explanation-5: -One Chinese creation myth describes a huge primordial egg containing the primal being, the giant Pangu. The egg broke and Pangu then separated chaos into the many opposites of the yin and the yang, that is, into creation itself.