Pangu
c. 200 CE – 2026 CEattested
China
- Chinese
Hatched from the cosmic egg and pushed earth and sky apart for eighteen thousand years, then died and became the landscape: his breath the wind, his eyes the sun and moon.
Known for
- separating heaven and earth
- the body becomes the world
- the cosmic egg
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.