Thus we have the heavens and the earth fashioned by this wonderful being in eighteen thousand years. With regard to him we may adapt the Scandinavian ballad:

It was Time’s morning When P’an Ku lived; There was no sand, no sea, Nor cooling billows;

Earth there was none, No lofty Heaven; No spot of living green; Only a deep profound.

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · And it is interesting to note, in passing, the similarity between this Chinese artificer of the universe and Ymer, the giant, who discharges

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