P'an Ku

American  

[pahn koo] / ˈpɑn ˈku /

(Pinyin) Pan Gu

noun

Chinese Mythology.

1. a being personifying the primeval stuff from which heaven and earth were formed.

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Example Sentences

The most conspicuous figure in Chinese cosmogony is P’an Ku.

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‘P’an’ means ‘the shell of an egg,’ and ‘Ku’ ‘to secure,’ ‘solid,’ referring to P’an Ku being hatched from out of Chaos and to his settling the arrangement of the causes to which his origin was due.

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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.

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This account of P’an Ku and his achievements is of Taoist origin.

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In some of the pictures of P’an Ku he is represented, as already noted, as holding the sun in one hand and the moon in the other.

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