Similarities Between Greek And China

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Even though the Chinese and the Greek are very similar, they also have many differences.

Some of the similarities are that they both have something to do with an egg. In the Chinese an egg shaped cloud existed before the earth. The egg shaped cloud contains a giant named pan Gu. Pan Gu the creators of the earth, created the world by stretching and broke the egg and release matter of the universe and when he died his body became the earth. In the Greek it was empty darkness and Nyx, “a bird with black wings.” Nyx golden egg crested the earth by hatching and one half of the egg shell became the earth.

Some of the differences are that why were the humans created. In the Chinese the humans were created because the goddess nu wa became lonely.

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