Although the Greek and Chinese creations stories originate from two different cultures, they both allocate some archetypal similarities as well as differences.
There are several similarities in the creation archetypes of the world and the universe itself within the Greek and Chinese creation Stories. Both were generated out of chaos. For the Chinese, “All the matter of the universe swirled chaotically in that egg” (Chinese creation story). While the Greek’s way of creation was by a black-winged bird named Nyx’s golden egg hatching. Another similarity between the two is that in both creation stories, an object of some sort was split in two. In the Chinese creation story, the bird, Pangu’s egg broke. Half of it rose to make the sky and the heavens,
There are several similarities in the creation archetypes of the world and the universe itself within the Greek and Chinese creation Stories. Both were generated out of chaos. For the Chinese, “All the matter of the universe swirled chaotically in that egg” (Chinese creation story). While the Greek’s way of creation was by a black-winged bird named Nyx’s golden egg hatching. Another similarity between the two is that in both creation stories, an object of some sort was split in two. In the Chinese creation story, the bird, Pangu’s egg broke. Half of it rose to make the sky and the heavens,