P'an Ku
Americannoun
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P’an Ku is pictured as a man of dwarfish stature clothed in bearskin, or merely in leaves or with an apron of leaves.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
According to this, the Male and Female Principles were each subdivided into Greater and Lesser, and then from the interaction of these four agencies a being, named P'an Ku, came into existence.
From Religions of Ancient China by Herbert Allen Giles
P’an Ku and his myth must be regarded rather as an accident than as a creation resulting from any sudden flow of psychological forces or wind of discontent ruffling the placid Chinese mind.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
Son of P’an Ku and T’ai-yüan Shêng-mu; first member of Taoist triad, 124; First Cause, Highest in Heaven, 127 sq.;
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
Legend provides us with a weird being named P'an Ku, who came into existence, no one can quite say how, endowed with perfect knowledge, his function being to set the gradually developing universe in order.
From The Civilization of China by Herbert Allen Giles
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