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Origin of the Pregnancy Episode in Chapter 53

The 2018 film Monkey King 3 (Xiyouji: Nu er guo, 西遊記·女兒國; lit: “Journey to the West: Woman Kingdom”) sees the pilgrims enter a magic portal to discover a hidden land peopled entirely by women. At one point, Tripitaka jumps into a river to retrieve the scattered words of a sentient piece of paper with information revealing how they can escape this female land; and in Sha Wujing’s attempt to save him, both inadvertently swallow water. The resulting splashes enter the mouth of Zhu Bajie sleeping nearby. Sometime later, all three pilgrims discover that they are pregnant due to drinking from the river (fig. 1-3). The queen of the Woman Kingdom sends Sun Wukong to retrieve magic water to abort the births from a cross-dressing immortal. However, upon his return, Monkey learns that they have decided to keep their babies. Despite this, he uses fixing magic to freeze them in place and gives them the water so that nothing will keep the pilgrims from their quest. This event from the movie is a

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Sun Wukong Wishes You a Happy Mother's Day

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Parallels between Sun Wukong and Wu Song

It recently occurred to me that Sun Wukong from Journey to the West (Xiyouji, 西遊記, 1592) (hereafter, JTTW) and Wu Song (武松) from the Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan, 水滸傳, c. 1400) (hereafter, WM) share a number of similarities: Each is a reformed supernatural spirit, a tiger-slayer, a Buddhist monk nicknamed "Pilgrim", and a monastic martial artist, and each wears a moralistic headband and wields a weapon made from the same fanciful metal. Since the WM predates the publication of JTTW by nearly two hundred years, one might be tempted to speculate that the latter influenced the former. However

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One Punch Man Purse - The Perfect Accessory

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Character Sketch - Taiwanese Superhero WIP

I've noticed a distinct lack of Taiwanese superheroes in Western media, so I've decided to make my own. Below is a rough character outline, a work-in-progress. I'm open to suggestions. I'd like this to be as authentic as possible. Name: Tsê-thian (齊天) – “Great Sage” Real name: Lin Yixian (林宜憲) (a mix of my wife's surname and my male friend's given name) Nationality: Taiwanese Home: Tainan Gender: Male Age: 20s / 30s? Language(s): Mandarin / Tâi-gí (Taiwanese Hokkien) Powers / abilities: Tâng-ki (童乩) spirit-medium vessel of Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equ

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Sun Wukong and Births From Stone in World Myth

This article is a greatly expanded version of this piece. One of the many unique aspects about Sun Wukong‘s story cycle is his birth from stone (fig. 1). Chapter one of Journey to the West (Xiyouji, 西遊記, 1592 CE) describes how the 36 foot 5 inch (11.09 m) tall, 24 foot (7.31 m) circumference rock issues forth a stone egg after absorbing celestial and terrestrial energies over countless eons: Since the creation of the world, it [the stone] had been nourished for a long period by the seeds of Heaven and Earth and by the essences of the sun and the moon, until, quickened by divine inspiration, it became pregnant with a

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