Pangu
Chinese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Primordial giant who separated sky and earth and became the world.
Domains
- creation
- cosmic order
Powers
- Separate heaven from earth
- Transform corpse into the world
Epithets
- 盤古 Primordial giant who separated heaven and earthSanwu Liji (Xu Zheng, Three Kingdoms period) (primary)
- 盤古真人 'The Perfected Man Pangu' — his Daoist honorificDaoist cosmogonic tradition (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Xu Zheng, Sanwu Liji, 3rd c. CE (primary)