Editing Creator deity (section)

===Chinese traditional cosmology===
[[Pangu]] can be interpreted as another creator deity. In the beginning there was nothing in the [[universe]] except a formless [[Chaos (cosmogony)|chaos]]. However this chaos began to coalesce into a [[world egg|cosmic egg]] for eighteen thousand years. Within it, the perfectly opposed principles of [[yin and yang]] became balanced and Pangu emerged (or woke up) from the egg. Pangu is usually depicted as a primitive, hairy [[giant (mythology)|giant]] with horns on his head and clad in furs. Pangu set about the task of creating the world: he separated Yin from Yang with a swing of his giant axe, creating the [[Earth]] (murky ''Yin'') and the [[Sky]] (clear ''Yang''). To keep them separated, Pangu stood between them and pushed up the Sky. This task took eighteen thousand years, with each day the sky grew ten feet higher, the Earth ten feet wider, and Pangu ten feet taller. In some versions of the story, Pangu is aided in this task by the four most prominent beasts, namely the [[Turtle]], the [[Qilin]], the [[Chinese phoenix|Phoenix]], and the [[Chinese dragon|Dragon]].

After eighteen thousand years<ref>(Note: In ancient China, 18,000 does not exactly mean eighteen thousand, it is meant to be "many", or "a number that could not be counted").</ref> had elapsed, Pangu was laid to rest. His breath became the [[wind]]; his voice the [[thunder]]; left eye the [[sun]] and right eye the [[moon]]; his body became the [[mountain]]s and extremes of the world; his blood formed rivers; his muscles the fertile lands; his facial hair the stars and milky way; his fur the bushes and forests; his bones the valuable minerals; his bone marrows sacred diamonds; his sweat fell as rain; and the fleas on his fur carried by the wind became [[human being]]s all over the world.

The first writer to record the myth of Pangu was [[Xu Zheng (Eastern Wu)|Xu Zheng]] during the [[Three Kingdoms]] period.

[[Shangdi]] is another creator deity, possibly prior to Pangu; sharing concepts similar to Abrahamic faiths.