Mireuk vs Pangu

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 primordial giant who created the world by separating yin and yang, Heaven and Earth. After holding them apart for 18,000 years, his body became the features of the universe.

Before the world existed, there was only a cosmic egg of chaos. Within it, Pangu grew for 18,000 years until he awoke and split the egg with his axe, creating Heaven above and Earth below. He held them apart until they were stable, then his body became the features of the world.

Pangu is the creator deity of Chinese mythology, a primordial giant whose birth, life, and death created the universe as we know it. His story is one of the most profound creation myths, combining themes of sacrifice, transformation, and the origin of cosmic order.