HIS280Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fuxi, Lisa Lopes, Idiom

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His280 week 1 reading: the gods of creation. Idiom: since pan gu created heaven and earth to mean since the beginning of time . The world is not differentiated in the beginning. All was a mass of confusion in the shape of a great egg. Then an egg appeared, containing pan gu (the most ancient deity) He had been sleeping and growing in the egg for 18000 years (dark inside) He broke the egg by axe all lightness rose up to form heaven and all that was thick and heavy dropped down to form the earth. He supported the heavens with his head and hold down the earth under his feet. Each day the heavens grew one zhang higher and the earth one zhang lower -> pan gu grew too each day. For 18000 years, heaven was fixed at 90000 li away from the earth -> pan gu same high.

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