The Three Principle Texts of Daoism translated by ... - Bad Request

immeasurable. How do we know but that there is somemightier universe in existence outside our own? That is aquestion to which we can give no answer."Heaven and earth, then, are themselves only materialobjects, and therefore imperfect. Hence it is that Kua ofold fashioned many-coloured blocks of stone to repairthe defective parts:“He cut off the legs of the Ao (a giant sea-turtle) andused them to support the four corners of the heavens.Later on, Kung Kung fought with Chuan Hsü for thethrone, and, blundering in his rage against Mount Puchou,he snapped the pillar which connects Heaven andearth.“That is why Heaven dips downwards to the north-west,so that sun, moon and stars travel towards that quarter.The earth, on the other hand, is now not large enoughto fill up the south-east, so that all rivers and streamsroll in that direction."Moving MountainsTHE TWO MOUNTAINS T'ai-hsing and Wang-wu,which cover an area of 700 square li, and rise to anenormous altitude, originally stood in the south of theChi district and north of Ho-yang. The Simpleton of theNorth Mountain, an old man of ninety, dwelt opposite