three sovereigns 三皇[san1 huang2] and five emperors 五帝[wu3 di4] ofmythand legend the earliest system of Chinese historiography 创世纪Trad.創世紀 chuàng shì jì creationmyth 开天辟地Trad.開天闢地 kāi tiān pì dì to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古...
1. (Greek myth) a king of Cyprus, who fell in love with the statue of a woman he had sculpted and which his prayers brought to life as Galatea also the Pygmalion word, a British euphemistic substitute for bloody in mid-20c. from its notorious use in Bernard Shaw’s play of the same...