Genesis - The Creation Story (Chinese Mythology)

 In the beginning.........., if you cannot complete that sentence, send me a message, we need to talk, Homo sapiens to Homo sapiens. Every one has a creation story they believe in, every culture and every religion has a creation story they believe in, and no one can force what they believe to be what another person believes. Each culture is rooted in myths that describe their origins in different ways, i'm sounding so serious in this particular post, i feel so proud of myself. This is to show you that i can be serious, i have seriousness in me, i'm not a clown.

Chinese culture is also rooted in myths that describe their origins, known as Pangu and its creation myth. In Chinese mythology, the story of the creation of man can be dated back thousands of years. According to the myth, at that time everywhere was in chaos, the first being named Pangu had been sleeping for eighteen thousand years (even me that i'm an ambassador for sleep, this one pass my level, all my "i can sleep for Africa" did not reach this one. This is not even on sleeping beauty's level). One day, when he woke up, he found himself in a cosmic egg surrounded by chaos, not being able to move and breath, he thought "it's time to come out of this egg". Therefore, he decided to break open the egg and began to bring order to the earth. The first thing he needed to do was to separate the heaven and the earth because the sky and heaven were stuck together, so Pangu lifted the light part of the egg which formed the heaven and the sky. This mythology therefore claims that the sky is the light part of an egg!, an egg guys, an egg!. 

He sank the heavy part of the egg which formed the earth, these two parts, that is, the light and heavy part of the egg became the earth (Yin) and the sky (Yang) respectively. Afterwards, because Pangu was the only being in the world, the different attributes in his character caused different changes in the world. The sky was clear when he was happy, when he was angry, the sky was gloomy, when he cried, rain fell to the ground forming lakes and rivers, when he sighed, the winds would blow across the land, as he winked his eyes, the sky would be full of lightening, as he snored, the sky would rumble with thunder (thank God Pangu was not a woman, if not, rain will be falling 5 days of the week and the sky will be gloomy 7 days of the week). Pangu grew ten feet every day and as he grew, the earth and the heaven moved ten feet far away from each other every day, which brought the heaven to where it is today and the earth to where it is today. When Pangu was satisfied with the distance between the earth and heaven, he got tired and fell asleep (after sleeping eighteen thousand years, you are still feeling sleepy, Chelsea c'mon now). He was too tired that he died in his sleep, ultimately.

After Pangu's death, his body then formed various parts of the earth. His last breath turned into the winds and the clouds. His voice became the thunder and lightning. The sweat from his body created rain and dew. From his two eyes, one became the sun, the other one became the moon. His head, torso and arms formed mountains in all directions. The flesh of his body formed the soil, and his blood became the oceans and rivers. Rocks, minerals and gems were formed from his veins, muscles, teeth and bones. Hair from his body became all animals. Finally, from the soul of his life came human beings. I think the only creation story myth i knew before this one was the one thought by my Yoruba teacher, so this is definitely a shocker. Do you know of any other creation story myths?