CHAT: Re : Tricksters (was Re: _Kantjil_: CHAT: Vexillology and games (was: Re: Fl...
| From: | <lassailly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 22, 2000, 6:12 |
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Dans un courrier daté du 21/06/00 23:28:17 , zHANg a écrit :
> In a message dated 2000/06/21 07:25:53 PM, Romilly wrote:
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> >Si Kantjil (modern Kancil) is a trickster figure.
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> I have - for a longtime - felt a strong kinship to Trickster figures,
> esp'ly Sun Wu K'ung, Chinese Trickstergod, a.k.a. "Monkey", Sage Equal to
> Heaven, Tripmaster Monkey, Col. Sun, etc..
> So much so that I feel like I am co-inhabited by Sun Wu K'ung.
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> zHANg
is it the monkey of the monkey festival in hong kong?
funny that: si kancil actually manages to deceive the monkey by
stealing fruit from him (but i can't remember how).
mathias