Pangu
Pangu is the cosmic giant of Chinese cosmogony. The world began as an egg; when it broke, the light and clear part rose to make the sky and the heavy, turbid part sank to make the earth. Pangu grew between them, ten feet a day for eighteen thousand years, until the sky and earth were far enough apart to stay.
The planetary, elemental, zodiacal, stone, herb and tarot values are modern Western correspondences chosen for coherence with the rest of the corpus, not ancient attributions. Pangu is a cosmogonic figure recorded in later texts (third century CE and after), not an ancient cult god.
Correspondences
Offerings
- Offerings
- IncenseGrainStone
Sacred timing
- Sacred Timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- P'an KuThe Cosmic Giant
- Gender Expression
- Masculine
- Titles
- The First BeingSeparator of Sky and EarthThe World-Body
- Symbols
- EggAxeSky and earthGiant body
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- TonePrimordial and neutralAddressPanguThe First BeingSeparator of Sky and EarthRelationshipThe first separationWarning
he separates. A working with Pangu divides things, and division is not reversible.
ResonanceBeginnings separation the first structure - Modern Practice
Worked with for the first separation - telling two things apart that have been mixed, starting a structure that did not exist, cutting a beginning out of chaos. The offering is incense and grain; the practice is the cut, not the holding.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- CreationSeparationCosmologyThe first cutOrder from chaosWorld-making
- Mythology Summary
Pangu is the cosmic giant of Chinese cosmogony. The world began as an egg; when it broke, the light and clear part rose to make the sky and the heavy, turbid part sank to make the earth. Pangu grew between them, ten feet a day for eighteen thousand years, until the sky and earth were far enough apart to stay. When he died his body became the world: breath the wind, voice the thunder, eyes the sun and moon, blood the rivers, hair the stars.
Details
- Secondary Planets
- Jupiter
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