These murals had been reproduced in this "temple" through rubbings taken from the ruins of different human civilizations around the world.
Tremors came from above the dome, dust and grit raining down in a steady patter. Yet Sun Hang completely ignored the danger that this place might collapse at any moment, tilting his head back as he lost himself in the murals.
He discovered that Xiazhou's ancient myths seemed to share many things in common with the myths of ancient civilizations from distant corners of the world.
For example, in Xiazhou mythology, a giant named Pangu split open chaos. After Pangu died, different parts of his body became the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, metals, stones, grass, and trees...
In Norse mythology, there was likewise a giant named Ymir. His blood became the oceans; his flesh became the land; his bones became mountains; his hair became trees... Even his brains became the clouds drifting across the sky.
In the eyes of the ancient peoples of Xiazhou and northern Europe, the world seemed to have been formed from a giant's corpse, with all things in existence being part of that giant's body.
As time moved on and human civilization began to flourish across the land, both Eastern and Western civilizations recorded an unprecedented great flood—the Noah's Ark mentioned in ancient Greek mythology and Yu the Great Controls the Flood, clearly recorded in Xiazhou history, had very likely taken place during the same period.
Nor was that all. Even the tale of "stealing fire" had an unexpected "coincidence" in both Eastern and Western mythology.
In ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the heavens and gave it to humanity so that humans could learn to use it. As punishment, he was bound to a cliff and subjected to the cruel torment of having