Cosmic Egg of Pangu

"One egg's lower half transformed
And became the earth below,
And its upper half transmuted
And became the sky above;
From the yolk the sun was made,
Light of day to shine upon us;
From the white the moon was formed,
Light of night to gleam above us;
All the colored brighter bits
Rose to be the stars of heaven
And the darker crumbs changed into
Clouds and cloudlets in the sky."
-   Kalevala, the Finnish national epic  

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"P’an-Ku: The basic idea of the yih philosophy was so convincing that it almost obliterated the Taoist cosmology of P’an-Ku who is said to have chiseled the world out of the rocks of eternity. Though the legend is not held in high honor by the literati, it contains some features of interest which have not as yet been pointed out and deserve at least an incidental comment.  P’an-Ku is written in two ways: one means in literal translations, “basin ancient”, the other “basin solid”. Both are homophones, i.e., they are pronounced the same way; and the former may be preferred as the original and correct spelling. Obviously the name means “aboriginal abyss,” or in the terser German, Urgrund, and we have reason to believe it to be a translation of the Babylonian Tiamat, “the Deep.”  The Chinese legend tells us that P’an-Ku’s bones changed to rocks; his flesh to earth; his marrow, teeth and nails to metals; his hair to herbs and trees; his veins to rivers; his breath to wind; and his four limbs became pillars marking the four corners of the world, -- which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babylonian story of Tiamat.  Illustrations of P’an-Ku represent him in the company of supernatural animals that symbolize old age or immortality, viz., the tortoise and the crane; sometimes also the dragon, the emblem of power, and the phoenix, the emblem of bliss."
-  Paul Carus, Chinese Thought (1907), chapter on “Chinese Occultism.”

Pangu (P'an Ku, Pan Kun, 盤古, Plate Ancient) was a mythological giant, the creator of all things on the earth, and the first living being.  Part of the myth includes the story that at the beginning of time the universe was contained in a black sphere or egg.  Inside the egg was the first living being, Pangu, who remains in a sleeping or unconscious state for 18,000 years.  Inside the cosmic egg was an inchoate mass, a comingling of disorganized possibilities, an Urgrund, a Chaos.  Outside the egg was the Void, Emptiness, Wuji.  Stories of the Primordial Sphere, Cosmogonic Egg, Cosmic Egg, or Orphic Egg are found in numerous cultures.  

Our great Planet Earth itself, now, is Our Cosmic Egg; and, outside the ozone sphere of Mother Earth, no living being can exist in the airless void of black space ever expanding.