In a message dated 2000/06/22 01:56:21 PM:
>> 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.
>> zHANg
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mathias wrote:
>is it the monkey of the monkey festival in hong kong?
Yepyep
>funny that: si kancil actually manages to deceive the monkey by
>stealing fruit from him (but i can't remember how).
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Tricksters are sometimes the victims of mischief too. A really good book
on Trickster archetypes is _Trickster Made the World_ (I don't have it here,
so I can't remember the author's name).
zHANg