According to the Christian Biblical Account, taken from the first Chapter of the Book of Genesis, the earth and life were created in 7 days. A single God, who is referred as God, created the heavens, earth and light. He then created an expanse between the waters to separate water from water called sky. He then gathered the water under the sky to let ground appear. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God then proceeded to make signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth. God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser l

The two stories talk of the creation of the mountains, water, moon, stars, heaven, earth, and everything else that we see in the world. It is interesting to note the difference timeframe that the creation of the earth took place. With Genesis, the creation of earth and man took merely a week as opposed to Pan Gu, which took 36 thousand years to accomplish. Also with Genesis man and earth were created by the same being unlike Pan Gu and Nu Wo. In Pan Gu's story, there is also some attention given to things that to someone in our culture may see as obscure. For instance, Pan Gu's marrow turned to jade and pearls. This shows cultural influence on the story because these are things hold great value in China. All of these myths have the same underlying themes; they just changed according to the custom and culture of the time.

According Chinese myth Pan Gu created the world. In the beginning, the heavens and earth were still one and all was chaos. The universe was like a big black egg, carrying Pan Gu inside itself. After 18 thousand years Pan Gu woke from a long sleep. He felt suffocated, so he took up a broadax and wielded it with all his might to crack open the egg. The light, clear part of it floated up and formed the heavens, the cold, turbid matter stayed below to form earth. Pan Gu stood in the middle, his head touching the sky, his feet planted on the earth. The heavens and the earth began to grow at a rate of

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