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In the beginning when all was chaos, and heaven and earth were
swirling together, Pan Gu was born and promptly set about
separating the Ground and the Sky. Which each passing day
he grew taller, the sky grew higher and the earth grew thicker,
until, after eighteen thousand years, the two were fully separated
and Pan Gu died of exhaustion. As his body disintegrated, his
eyes became the sun, and the moon, his blood transformed into
rivers, his sweat fell as rain, and his head and limbs became the
five sacred mountains of China.
The mountain Tai Shan sprang from Pan Gu's head and because of its
location in the dominant east signifying birth or spring, it is
the most revered of the five mountains.
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