Pangu vs Purusha

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.

The primordial cosmic being of Rigveda 10.90, the Purusha Sukta, whom the gods sacrificed so that the world could be made from his body: the sun from his eye, the moon from his mind, the sky from his head, the earth from his feet, and the four social classes from his mouth, arms, thighs, and feet.

Rigveda 10.90 says that from Purusha was born Viraj, and from Viraj Purusha again, a paradox of mutual origin. The gods then bound him as their sacrificial victim and made the ordered world from his divided body.

The Purusha Sukta (Rigveda 10.90) describes a cosmic Person with a thousand heads, eyes, and feet who covers the earth and extends beyond it. All creatures are a quarter of him; three quarters are immortal in heaven.