PAN-KU In Chinese mythos, P'an-ku was the primeval man, who hatchedfrom a cosmic egg. At the beginning of creation, the universe itself was an egg, which hatched open, the top half becoming the sky and the bottom half the earth. P'an-ku, emerging from the egg, grew ten feet taller every day, just as the sky became tenfeet higher and the earth ten feet thicker. After , years P'an-ku died;then, likethe cosmic egg, he split into a number of parts. His head became the sun and themoon, his blood formed the rivers and seas, his hair the forests, his sweat the rain, hisbreath the wind, his voice thunder and his fleas the ancestors of mankind.