In the Zhuangzi, the emperors of the north and south seas, grateful to Hundun, the emperor of the centre, bore seven holes in him so he could see, hear, eat and breathe. On the seventh day he died. The story warns against destroying undifferentiated wholeness by imposing distinctions.
Hundun
Chaos: the faceless emperor of the Zhuangzi who dies when given the senses, an image of primal wholeness.
Also: chaos