MONKEY KING •

Also known as Sun Wukong in Mandarin Chinese is a legendary mythical figure.Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven, he is imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha. After five hundred years, he accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang (唐三藏) and two other disciples on a journey to get back Buddhist sutras from the West (India), where Buddha and his followers dwell.
As king of the monkeys it is his duty to keep track of and protect every monkey. Sun Wukong also acquires the 72 Earthly Transformations, which allow him to access 72 unique powers, including the ability to transform into sundry animals and objects.

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ANCIENT SCARABS •

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ENKI •
Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 DEN-KI

Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki. He was later known as Ea (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂍𒀀) or Ae in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion. The name was rendered Aos in Greek source

God of creation, intelligence, crafts, water, seawater, lakewater, fertility, semen, magic, mischief

Symbol Goat, fish, goat-fish
Greek equivalent Poseidon,Prometheus

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