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Hundun – the embodiment of primeval chaos

Drevnekitayskoy In mythology, there is a Hundun, embodies the idea of undifferentiated chaos, the former before the Universe has found to exist. This image of the primitive egg or a bag, which enables the splitting of its earlier content nerazdelennomu take the form of an organized universe. Hundun or Chaos did not have the usual seven holes of a people (eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth). This unusual mythological character associated polukomicheskaya parable, which contains, however, a profound philosophical implications.
Here is the content: «Vladyka South Sea was called Shu – Speed, the lord of North Sea was called Hu – A sudden and Vladyka Center – Hundun – Chaos. Xu Hu, and often visited for entertainment Hundunya, Hundun met their unusually friendly and precautionary. Once Shu and Hu thinking about how to repay him for his kindness. Everyone, they said, has eyes, ears, mouth, nose – seven holes in his head to see, hear and smell is. But Hundun not had any of them, and his life was not a really beautiful. The best, they decided, drill a few holes in it. Shu and Hu took the gun, similar to our axes and drills, and went to Hundunyu. One day – one hole for seven days – seven holes. But poor Hundun, whose best friends since izdyryavili, cried bitterly, and ordered to live a long time ». Instead Hundunya, in which Shu and Hu, symbolizing the transience of time, prosverlili seven holes, having the universe and the Earth.

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