when he breathed, the wind rose; when he spoke, thunder was loosed; and when he looked around lightning flashed. If he was in a good mood, the weather was fine; if he was sad, it clouded over. When he died, he fell apart, and from his body the five holy mountains of China sprang into existence. His head became the T'ai mountain in the East his trunk became the Sung mountain in the center, his right arm the Heng mountain in the North, his left arm the Heng mountain in the South, and his feet the Hua mountain in the West. His eyes became the sun and moon.
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Cosmic Man-the gigantic, all-embracing figure that personifies and contains the entire universe-路is a common representation of the Self in myths and dreams. Left, the title page of Leviathan, by the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. The gigantic figure of Leviathan is made up of all the people of the "commonwealth"-Hobbes's ideal society, ill which the people choose their own central authority (01' "sovereign," hence Leviathan's crown, sword, and scepter). Above, the cosmic figure of ancient China's p'an Ku-shown covered in leaves to indicate that Cosmic Man (or First Man) simply existed. like a plant, grown in nature.