Reading Notes: Sun Wu Kung Part A

"Don't mind me, just your average everyday human!": Image

The Great Sea
The image of Sun Wu Kung dressing and acting like a human and everyone just believing it with no argument is hilarious to me. Especially the fact that he was able to do this unnoticed for NINE YEARS. This could definitely be a good basis for a story, especially one with a tone that doesn't take itself too seriously.

The Nether World
This story really highlighted to me how much Sun Wu Kung is similar to Heracles. They're both very brutish, hot-tempered heroes who like to do whatever they want and solve their problems with big, heavy sticks. They both also seem to make a habit of disobeying the laws of death, and running through the Underworld as they please. I think it could be fun to maybe do a retelling where both heroes are boasting and attempting to one-up each other with their feats.

Bibliography - "The Ape Sun Wu Kung" in The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

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