"Tai Shan's place in the hearts and minds of the Chinese people is deeply rooted in their most ancient creation myth--the story of Pan Gu. In the beginning when all was chaos, and heaven and earth were swirling together, Pan Gu was born and promptly set about separating the ground and the sky. With each passing day he grew taller, the sky grew higher and the earth grew thicker, until, after 18,000 years, the two were fully separated and Pan Gu died of exhaustion. As his body disintegrated, his eyes became the sun and the moon, his blood transformed into the rivers, his sweat fell as rain, and his head and limbs became the five sacred Taoist mountains of China, Tai Shan among them."
"..., Tai Shan is the most revered of the five holy Taoist peaks."
