Category: Panguite

Here is some essentially arcane, minor news that nonetheless received considerable attention from reporters. The news is that analysis of fragments of the Allende Meteor, whose pieces scattered across Mexico in 1969, revealed a mineral not in the catalogs. One reason is catches the eye is its common name, Panguite, and the press release from Caltech explaining that it derives from Pan Gu, a Chinese mythological giant who, the tale goes, swung an ax and smote yin from yang to make sky. Ancient mythologies - doesn't matter whether Chinese, Biblical, Greek, Kwakiutl, Hawaiian, Eyptian, Roman, Norse, Maya, whatever - add depth and...