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beginning
On-Yomi: ゲン、ガン — Kun-Yomi: もと
Elements:
beginning, two, human legs
Heisig story:
"In the beginning..." starts that marvelous shelf of books we call the Bible. It talks about how all things were made, and tells us that when the Creator came to humanity she made two of them, man and woman. While we presume she made two of every other animal as well, we are not told as much. Hence we need only two and a pair of human legs come to the kanji that means beginning.
Koohii stories:
1) [mukade] 10-7-2007(236): In the beginning were just two who walked on human legs.
2) [Tsuki11] 29-10-2007(71): In the beginning God created woman, and God asked her how she liked his work. Woman replied, "Well, you know how I have two eyes, two arms, two legs… it seems redundant to have three breasts. It would look more symmetrical with two." God nodded, and the middle breast fell off… and it was good. Woman picked up the breast and said, "Thank you, God! But what do I do with this useless boob?" And God created man. That's why the women today only have two boobs to match their two human legs.
3) [smiro] 18-11-2007(46): Every journey begins with your two legs.
4) [Tatiana] 10-10-2006(14): Grandpa Woody always began stories from his youth with "In the beginning, when I had two legs…".
5) [domokun1134] 24-11-2009(8): In the beginning we start out with nothing but our own two legs.