#1 - Origins 1: The Mythical Origins Of The Middle Kingdom
The History of China
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The Three Sovereigns
The cosmology and mythology of ancient China is a rather curious thing, especially to Western and specifically Judeo-Christian worldviews. In the words of Casey Chang, one finds in China no myth of the kind that is found in the Book of Genesis. No god or gods created Exnilo or Invacuo, heaven, earth, people, or animals. Instead, what we have is a primordial antiquity with a number of superhuman and divine entities involved in a transformation process that is both awesome and terrifying.
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