Volume I
Before Heaven and Earth
The Origins of the Chinese Creation Myth
Chaos undividedHeaven and earth unopenedAll things unborn
From Pangu separating heaven and earthto the establishment of cosmic order
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Preface
At the beginning there were no dynasties, no writing and no history.
There were only chaos, heaven and earth, and the earliest attempts to imagine how a world could begin.
Pangu explained why heaven and earth exist.
Creation stories preserved the first questions of a civilization.
These accounts are not historical chronicles, but they record how a culture understood its place between heaven and earth.