Mireuk vs Nuwa

The creator of the world in the Korean shamanic Song of Creation, who separates heaven and earth, props up the sky with copper pillars, makes stars from an extra sun and moon, and creates the first humans, before losing the world to the cheating Seokga.

Born when heaven and earth came into being (Changse-ga, recorded 1923).

In 1923 the folklorist Son Jin-tae recorded the *Changse-ga* ('Song of the Creation of the World') from the shaman Kim Ssang-dori of Hamheung in northern Korea, publishing it in 1930. It begins when heaven and earth came into being and Mireuk was born. Heaven and earth were stuck together, and Mireuk pushed the sky up like the lid of a pot and set copper pillars at the four corners of the earth to hold it. There were two suns and two moons; Mireuk took one moon to make the stars of the Big Dipper and the Southern Dipper, and one sun to make the great and small stars.

The serpent-bodied goddess who created humanity from yellow clay and repaired the broken sky after a great catastrophe. She is the mother of mankind and establisher of marriage.

In the age after Pangu created the world, the goddess Nuwa felt lonely wandering the empty earth. She took yellow clay and molded it into figures like herself, breathing life into them to create humanity. She is the mother of all people.

Nuwa is one of the most ancient and important goddesses in Chinese mythology, credited with creating humanity and saving the world from destruction. With her brother-husband Fuxi, she represents the primordial creative forces that shaped civilization.