The giant feared that the pure and the murky air would recombine, so its body grew taller and taller, until eventually it towered, separating heaven and earth. When the giant fell, its body turned into all things, its breath became the wind and clouds, its voice the thunderous roar, the left eye the sun, the right eye the moon, the hair and beard the stars in the night sky, the body the four extremities of east, west, south, north and the majestic mountains, the flowing blood the raging rivers, the veins the crisscrossing highways, the teeth, bones, and marrow the subterranean ore; the skin and body hair turned into the vegetation on the land, and sweat became the rain and dew. Even the sweat that flowed transformed into the nourishing rain that moistens all things.
Later, on this land, two deities were born, they were Tao and Nüwa...
Donnie told Irving a story that combined the myth of Pangu's creation of the world with the tumult of ancient legends.
