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Long ago, people looked up at the sky and wondered how the world had begun.

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The story of Pangu is one traditional Chinese answer told through imagination.

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In this myth, sky and earth had not yet separated.

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Everything rested inside something like a great, quiet egg.

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A giant named Pangu slept within it.

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There were no mountains, rivers or familiar paths.

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We are entering a myth: a story that expresses ancient imagination.

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It is different from a scientific explanation of how the universe formed.

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At last Pangu woke.

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He stretched and found the space around him dark and cramped.

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In the story, he wanted to make room for a world.

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A first light appeared and the great egg slowly opened.

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The light, clear part rose and became the sky.

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The heavy part settled and became the earth.

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You can help this scene unfold without using any real tools.

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Move the separation control and watch the space widen.

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Pause anywhere, turn the view and notice how the scene changes from another direction.

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Pangu stood between sky and earth.

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In the myth, he grew taller each day and the sky became more distant.

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The figure of a giant helped storytellers imagine the making of an enormous world.

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Now you can become the stage designer.

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Bring the mountains together to make a valley, or spread them apart like islands.

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Your arrangement does not need to match somebody else's.

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When you change the landscape, think about the words you would use to describe the new world in

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front of Pangu.

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The traditional story connects the giant with the mountains, wind and clouds.

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Our family retelling uses gentle stage images to explore that imagination.

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Peaks appear on the earth and clouds drift across the sky.

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Try adding a cloud, then taking one away.

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What kind of weather does your stage suggest?

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Move to another viewpoint and describe a path between the mountains.

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A family member can become the narrator.

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Record a name for this landscape, or tell us what Pangu discovers when he looks beyond the

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nearest hill.

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Pangu's story passed an ancient imagination from one storyteller to another.

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Today you can join them.

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Make Pangu, the cosmic egg, mountains and clouds, and arrange them on your table.

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Tell the traditional story first.

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Then explain when your own adaptation begins.

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Will your Pangu explore a mountain or invite a friend to visit?

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For questions about the real universe and Earth, open a science story too.

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Compare the different roles of imagination and evidence.

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Your next scene can begin in the world you have just made.