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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. Character in Chinese mythology For other uses, see Monkey King (disambiguation). "Wukong" redirects here. For other uses, see Wukong (disambiguation). "Qi Tian Da Sheng" redirects here. For Pu Songling's story, see The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal. In this Chinese name, the family name is ...
Like the Indian monkey-god Hanuman in Hindu mythology, Chinese deities sometimes appear in the guise of monkeys. The best-known of these is Sun Wukong, the main protagonist in Wu Cheng'en's picaresque novel Journey to the West, also known as Monkey.
He fights with Sun Wukong when the latter rebels against Heaven but loses to the monkey's trickery. Juling Shen ( 巨靈神 ) leads the vanguard to attack Sun Wukong. Erlang Shen ( 二郎神 ) is a maternal nephew of the Jade Emperor and a warrior deity.
Monkeys and apes in Chinese mythology (1 C, 7 P) T. ... Howler monkey gods; M. Monkey King; Monkey-man of Delhi; P. Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa; S. Satyrus (ape) Shug ...
Erlang Shen, or simply Erlang, is a god in Chinese folk religion and Daoism, associated with water (flood control), justice, warriorhood, hunting, and demon subdual. He is commonly depicted as a young man with a third, truth-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead, wielding a three-pronged spear, and being accompanied by his loyal hunting dog, Xiaotian Quan.
The Chinese idea of the universal God is expressed in different ways. There are many names of God from the different sources of Chinese tradition. [17] The radical Chinese terms for the universal God are Tian (天) and Shangdi (上帝, "Highest Deity") or simply, Dì (帝, "Deity"). [18] [19] There is also the concept of Tàidì (太帝, "Great ...
Howler monkey gods, a patron of the artisans among the Classic Mayas; La Ciudad Blanca, sometimes referred to as a "City of the Monkey God" Babi, or Baba, Egyptian deity of Baboons; Ngi, Gorilla divinity in Central Africa; Vrishakapi, energetic monkey mentioned in Rigveda; Wuzhiqi, supernatural being in Chinese Mythology
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