As for Life/Destruction, I think IET just added them to get a nice round 10 Heavenly Daos, since Life/Destruction should merely be aspects of Yin/Yang if we go by mythology. Primordial Chaos > Yin/Yang > Five Elements. (The Five Elements come from the intermingling of Yin&Yang according to Chinese mythology, and everyone/everything in the universe is composed of the Five Elements.) So. Primordial Chaos is supreme because everything else ultimately originated from it. Primordial Chaos, Yin/Yang, Life/Destruction, & the Five Elements. If that's so, then think of the Heavenly Daos from Desolate Era. (Just like in English with the word " myriad", 万 can mean 10000 or an indefinitely large number.)īut what if the "One" is Primordial Chaos? I think it's a valid interpretation since Yin and Yang (the "Two") came from it - according to the Pangu myth.
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Whatever the case, the Three give birth to the "10 thousand things" (万物), which figuratively refers to everything else in the universe. Maybe it's the Three Realms (Heaven/Earth/Mortal realms), maybe it's the Three Treasures (Essence/Qi/Spirit), or maybe it's the intermingling of Yin+Yang+the WuXing born from them. "One" is probably Taiji ("Supreme Ultimate") or maybe even the Dao itself (the idea being that the Dao spontaneously birthed itself). There are many interpretations on what One/Two/Three are supposed to mean. It describes the process of how everything in the universe came into being. There's a famous quote from Laozi which goes something like "The Dao gave birth to One. Not a perfect analogy, but you get the idea. Think of it as splitting an atom into its components, with Yin being electrons and Yang being protons. So just from this, we can see that Primordial Chaos is on a higher level than Yin and Yang. From there, everything in the universe was born from the Heavens, Earth, and the new interactions between Yin and Yang. Once dissociated from each other, the greater portion of Yang (light and ethereal) rose up and became the Heavens, while the greater portion of Yin (dark and heavy) sunk down to become the Earth. This wasn't a simple swing of his axe it actually split apart Yin and Yang which had previously been fused / perfectly balanced. With a great axe, he cleaved through the egg and escaped (but eventually died from the exertion). Pangu was born within the primordial chaos (混沌), which was essentially a Cosmic Egg. So my confusion is Is the Dao of Chaos, so strong that it alone beats out 8 of the other 9 daos combined? and did Nuwa become equal to Pangu? or did she actually surpass him since she had 9 of the 10 daos, including Chaos? But it wasn't until the war with the Seemless World, and when Nuwa mastered the Dao of Chaos, that it is said she reached Pangu's level. She then, not killing herself, mastered Yin, Yang, and the 5 elements, which is 8 of the 10 Heavenly Daos, 2 of which oppose each other, and I think there is a special aspect of mastering all the elements and becoming the true avatar. Nuwa on the other hand, came into existence having mastered the Dao of Life. Upon which he apparently immediately killed himself by cutting the Primordial chaos into the Heavens and Earth, creating the Primodial world upon which he died. So Pangu was the last Elder god to come into creation, and did so having mastered the Heavenly Dao of Chaos. So the Yin/Yang combo should be stronger than Life/Fire, for example.
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First, this is my first new thread on the forums, which i have been lurking in for quite some time.