The Design of the Heavens (English), in: East Asia — China
In ancient times Gong Gong and Zhuan Xu fought, each seeking to become the thearch. Enraged, they crashed against Mount Buzhou;
Heaven’s pillars broke;
the cords of Earth snapped.
Heaven tilted in the northwest, and thus the sun and moon, stars and planets shifted in that direction.
Earth became unfull in the southeast, and thus the watery floods and mounding soils subsided in that direction.
(b.i) Chinese — (b.ii) Major (2010) — (b.iii) Birrell (1997) — (b.iv) Secondary sources
– Major, John S., “Three, Celestial Patterns”, in: Major, John S., Queen, Sarah A., Meyer, Andrew Seth, and Roth, Harold D., The Huainanzi, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), p. 115
– Major, John S., Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), p. 62
Flood Stories 