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Facts about Pangu and the Cosmic Egg
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A key source for the Pangu myth is the scholar Xu Zheng, whose third-century text preserves one of the earliest written versions of the cosmic egg narrative.
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Pangu is said to have grown taller each day for eighteen thousand years as he pushed the sky and earth apart.
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Written accounts of Pangu and the Cosmic Egg myth appear primarily in texts from the Three Kingdoms period onward, making it relatively late among Chinese cosmological traditions.
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In the Pangu myth, after his death, Pangu's body parts transformed into the features of the world, with his breath becoming wind and his eyes becoming the sun and moon.
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The Chinese creation myth of Pangu describes a giant who emerged from a cosmic egg and separated chaos into sky and earth.