![]() ![]() ![]() Anansi tales were passed exclusively through oral tradition, and when European powers started enslaving Africans, they brought these stories with them into the New World. This African spirit takes the shape of a spider, and is considered to have all knowledge of stories. His story is well told in one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature, “The Journey to the West” ( also available for free!). ![]() ![]() Overall, he was an amazing mythical hero. He could hold his own when fighting against the best warriors in the heavens, he could transform into 72 other animals, and finally he could split his hairs which formed clones of himself. He had the power to travel half the distance of the Earth in one somersault, and his staff (which he carried around effortlessly) weighed around 8 ton. Eventually, with another monk he goes to India to find lost Buddhist sutras, in exchange for his freedom once he completed the task. Being a bit mischievous, he rebelled against the heavens, and as punishment was imprisoned under a mountain by Buddha. He was a monkey born from a stone, who gained great supernatural powers by following the Taoist teachings. Sun Wukong is a famous Chinese hero whose legend is at least a thousand years old. ![]()
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