The Mythical Story of Pangu's Opening of the Sky and the Earth

1. A long, long time ago, the sky and the earth were not yet separated, and the universe was chaotic. There was a giant named Pangu, and in the midst of this chaotic universe, he slept for a hundred and eighty thousand years.

2. One day, Pangu suddenly woke up. He saw a darkness around him, so he swung his big axe and chopped at the darkness in front of him. Just heard a loud noise, a dark thing gradually scattered. The slowly rising things, into the sky; slowly falling things, into the ground.

3. After the sky and the earth were separated, Pangu, fearing that they would come together again, held his head against the sky and his feet against the earth. Every day the sky rises a ten feet, Pangu also with the sky grows higher and higher. After many years, the sky and the earth gradually took shape, and Pangu collapsed from exhaustion.

4. After Pangu fell, his body changed greatly. The breath he exhaled became the winds and clouds of the four seasons; the sound he made turned into rumbling thunder; his eyes became the sun and the moon; his limbs became the four poles of the earth: east, west, south, and north; his skin became the vast expanse of the earth; his blood turned into the rushing rivers; and his sweat turned into the rains that moisturize all things .....