Скачать или смотреть Part: 8-A, Chinese mythology, How humanity began: Pangu, Nuwa and the first humans

In this episode of History Odyssey: From Big Bang to Modern, we explore how ancient Chinese civilizations imagined the birth of the world and the origin of humanity.


This is the complete Part A, covering six major sections from Pangu’s cosmic creation to Nuwa shaping the first humans.


🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Video:
✓ The cosmic egg & Pangu’s giant body forming the universe
✓ Nuwa — the divine creator goddess who molded humans from clay
✓ Why some humans were hand-crafted while others were made with a rope
✓ The early world, its chaos, disasters, and Nuwa’s heroic repair
✓ Symbolic meaning behind clay humans
✓ How Chinese creation stories influenced later traditions


📘 Sources / References Mentioned
(All references used earlier are combined here)
Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shan Hai Jing)
Huainanzi (Book of the Western Han Dynasty)
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji)
Songs of Chu (Chu Ci)
Chinese folklore traditions passed through oral literature
Traditional Daoist cosmology
Mythology studies by Anne Birrell, Yuan Ke, and Wolfram Eberhard
Academic summaries from Cambridge University Press & Britannica on Pangu/Nüwa myths


🎯 Why This Myth Matters
These creation stories shaped how ancient China understood:
• Life
• Morality
• Social hierarchy
• Cosmic balance
• Human purpose


This is Part A.
Part B will explore:
➡️ The Yellow Emperor
➡️ Early moral evolution
➡️ Mythic ancestors tied to agriculture, medicine, and civilization




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