He found himself in this egg surrounded by great turmoil. Therefore, P"an Ku decided to break free and separate the heavens and the earth out of the chaos. The light parts of the egg, the yang, rose and formed the heavens; meanwhile, the heavy parts of the egg, the yin, sank and formed the earth. P"an Ku had to stand between them holding up the heavens to keep them from colliding with the earth. Each moved ten feet further away from the other every day as he grew ten feet everyday: P"an Ku's pushing caused the earth and the sky to move ten feet each day. Therefore, little by little, the earth sank lower beneath the sky and the sky rose higher above the earth. The lower the earth sank, the higher the heavens rose, the taller P"an Ku became. When the earth rested far below the heavens and the heavens far above the earth P"an Ku got tired, went to sleep and died. After he died his breath turned into the winds and the clouds, his voice became the rolling thunder and lightning. One of his eyes became the sun, the other the moon. His head formed the mountains in the east while his feet formed the mountains in the west. His right arm became the mountains of the north while his left the mountains of the south. His torso became the mountains of the center. The flesh off his body became the soil and his fluids became the oceans and rivers. Veins, muscles, teeth and bones gave shape to the earth's surface, while from his body hair he generated the plants. All of the mites that had lived on his skin became the animals, fish and people. P"an Ku eased the chaos by coming out of the egg and creating earth. .
The egg symbolizes a mother's womb out of which life comes. The egg is "a symbol of the totality from which all creation comes" (Encyclopedia Britannica Online). This holds true in its use in the story of P"an Ku since from the egg came the creation of everything. The use of the egg in creation myths gives a visual idea of creation.