Pan and Gu

Pan and Gu

Pan and Gu(Pan He Gu in Chinese)is the genesis myth of Maonan ethnic minority.(https://www.daowen.com)

Pan and Gu were brother and sister and they planted gourds.There is a very big gourd on the vein.Suddenly one day a flood pummeled their country.Pan and Gu dodged into the big gourd,not being washed away by the flood.After the water receded,there only remained the brother and sister.They decided to reinvent the people and the world.However,they couldn’t marry with each other because they are kindred.How to do? They agreed that they each carried a millstone to the top of the hill,and pushed them down.If these two millstones put together as one,it would prove that they should marry as destiny.Then two millstones rolled from the top of the hill and cohered together as one.So they married and gave birth to a child.They chopped the child into pieces and let the crows and eagles peck and scatter them everywhere.Three days later,human beings were in everywhere and there was a new world.