e that as payment. The king had to keep his word and allowed Pangu to marry his daughter but he transformed the dog into a human using a golden bell. But the process was completed and he was left with the head of a dog.Besides the existence of Pangu, there was also a mother goddess named Nu Gua / Nu Kua who was dubbed the mother of all men (Chooey 1). The goddess created man out of clay by hand crafting them because she was lonely on the vacant earth. To conserve time, she began to dip a cord into the mud and let it drip down to form humans. But, she later found out all that were made by this process were imperfect unlike the ones she crafted by hand. This explains the cause of flaws in some human beings.In both tales there were villians which cause damage to the existing world. In The Creation of the Universe this supernatural villain was named Gong-Gong (Rosenberg 3). When he rammed his head into one of the mountains that supported the earth, he caused fires, flooding, and earthquakes and many of earths people to die. In From out of Mud the villians names were Kung-Kung and Chuan Tsu (Chooey 2). The two would come to earth and cause destruction and even eat the humans that Nu Kua created. Mass destruction to the earth was caused when the two began to fight over who was going to eat the next human as they began wrestling, knocking into a pillar causing a big hole in the sky to rip open. Another creation myth series existed also. Other stories told of other beginnings. In a story called The Ten Chinese Suns a different approach is taken to give the order from chaos. In this particular tale, which was told during the Chou dynasty (1027 BC-221 BC), it was said that earth already existed but ten suns existed which would take turns riding across the sky on a chariot with their mother (Internet Sight www.windows.umich.edu). After doing this for many, many years, the suns all agreed to ride across together. By doing this, they ...
