P'an Ku
Americannoun
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Whether as the result of the co-operation of the yin and the yang or of the final dissolution of P’an Ku, human beings came into existence.
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
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 E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
P’an Ku and the, 77–78; influences terrestrial events, 176; symbol of the, 176; worship of, 176–177, 179; the nine false, 181–182; palace of the, conferred on Shên I, 186 Sun Hou-tzŭ.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
The chief gods of medicine are the mythical kings P’an Ku, Fu Hsi, Shên Nung, and Huang Ti.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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