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Chinese Origin Story Vs Greek Mythology

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An origin story is an account of how a culture, a people, or a fictional character came to be. Many of these cultures have their own ideas of how the universe was created. For example, it is written in the Jewish bible that God created the heavens and the earth. This is the origin story from the beliefs of the Jewish people. Chinese and Greek Origin stories are very different, but are slightly similar as well. The Chinese origin story goes as follows: In the beginning there was a huge egg containing all opposites mixed together including male and female, earth and sky, hot and cold, dark and light, etc. Pan Gu was a giant within the chaos. He separated all the opposites including the Earth and the sky. As the sky got higher and the earth got …show more content…

Athena (Goddess of wisdom and Justice) burst out of his head. Zeus fought off the challenges to his power and remained to ruler of the home of the Gods, Mount Olympus.
A son of the Titans, called Prometheus, didn't fight with the Titans against Zeus so the let him out of prison. He was given a task to create man. He made it out of mud and Athena gave life to the clay figure. Prometheus tricked Zeus and as a punishment, Zeus made Pandora. She was beautiful and wealthy, but she was deceiving and she lied. She also had a box that she wasn’t supposed to open, but her curiosity got the best of her and she opened it. Opening it released all the evil and bad, but also hope which was at the bottom of the box.
The Greek and Chinese origin stories are similar because The both depict characters with human qualities like how Pan Gu had a body with limbs, eyes, a voice, breath, skin, etc. Also the way that the gods could have children showed some human qualities. In the Chinese story, All of the earth and the sky was made from one person, but in the Greek story, all of the sky and the earth was represented by different

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