Bible Stories

　　In the Bible, the story about how the world began and how life came to be makes sense to me because in the ancient times people of all lands have sought to understand the world in which they live and to understand themselves as human beings. In China, there are also myths about how the world begun and how life came to be. It is said that God created the world and men in the Bible, while in Chinese mythology, it is said that a god called Pangu created the world and a goddess called Nuwa created human beings.
　　At first, the sky and the earth were one blurred entity like an egg. Then Pangu was born into it. Eighteen thousand years passed, Pangu woke up and stood up. Then the egg was separated by Pangu and the heaven and the earth were formed. In order to avoid the heaven falling down, Pangu stood between the heaven and the earth. After another eighteen thousand years, Pangu was so tired that he finally died. However, after his death, his left eye became the sun; his right eye became the moon; his last breath became wind and cloud; his last sound became thunder; his hair became stars; his head, hands and feet became the earth and mountains; his blood became rives and lakes; his tendon and vessel became roads; his muscle became soil; his skin and fine hair became flowers, grass and trees; his teeth and bones became minerals; and his sweat became rain and sweet dew. Therefore, the world was formed.
　　According to the Chinese myth, a goddess called Nuwa with a human head and a snake body existed in the beginning of the world. She felt lonely, so she began to create human beings from yellow clay after her image. She created so many human beings by her hands that she felt very tired. So she dipped a rope in clay and flicked it so blobs of clay landed everywhere; each of these blobs became a common person. So there was a saying in China ancient times that the nobles were the ones created by Nuwa’s hands. After creating human beings, Nuwa also established the marriage system for humans.