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

When P’an Ku had completed his work in the primitive Chaos, his spirit left its mortal envelope and found itself tossed about in empty space without any fixed support.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

Author of Shên hsien chuan; inventor of P’an Ku legend, 79, 80 Ko-ai.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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 Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

The picturesque person of P’an Ku is said to have been a concession to the popular dislike of, or inability to comprehend, the abstract.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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 Giles, Herbert Allen