History "The Nature of Monkey was Irrepressible!!" Monkey
was hatched from a magical egg on a mountain top, which had been weathered
and fertilised by the elements over many centuries. Made of stone and virtually
indestructible (although he still feels pain), he was crowned the Monkey
King after he proved to be the only monkey on the Mountain of Fruit and Flowers
to dare go through the Water Curtain and set up a kingdom on Earth. Upon
realising that he was destined to die like everyone else, he made it his
new goal to become immortal. He located a Taoist who taught him magic and
alchemy (and how to fly on clouds).
After this he began a reign of unbelievable mischief. He bullied the Dragon
Kings of the Oceans into giving him a Magic Wishing Staff, and the clothes
to match it. He crossed off his name and the names of all his monkey subjects
from the "Monkey File" in the Register of the Quick and the Dead, thus rendering
all his original subjects immortal as well. When Heaven sent down people
to punish him for these escapades he beat them up and sent them back. Emboldened
by this success, he then went to Heaven himself and demanded the title "Great
Sage - Equal of Heaven" - which he got (but with no salary to go with it)
as it was decided the easiest way to contain his mischief was to trick him
into staying in Heaven.
But even there he created chaos with his restless irreverence and irrepressible
curiosity. Things came to a peak when he ate the peaches from the Jade Emperor's
Sacred Peach Garden, making himself even more truly immortal. The Peaches
were intended for the Peach Banquet, which he then totally disrupted by making
a mess of the arrangements, drinking all the wine, eating up all the finger-food,
and gobbling down the Elixir concocted by Lao Tsu for the Cinnabar Banquet.
Following this debacle, he fled from Heaven, pursued by the hundred thousand
soldiers of same. When they caught up with him, but he beat them up too.
It was not until Lao Tsu threw down his Diamond Snare, hitting Monkey on
the head, that the recalcitrant captured.
Large Chinese Opera Mask of the Monkey King
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Price:$59.95
Shipping Weight: 5.00 pounds
Powers/Abilities: The Monkey King was born out of rock, and hence
is extremely strong and durable - in fact he is totally invulnerable. He
is immortal, having gorged himself on the life-giving peaches of the Jade
Emperor's sacred garden. He is also extremely smart - he learned all the
magic tricks in the world from a master Taoist, so that he is now able to
transform himself into seventy-two different images such as a tree, a bird,
a beast of prey or a bug as small as a mosquito so as to sneak into an enemy's
belly to fight him inside or out. He can employ clouds as vehicles allowing
him to travel 180,000 miles in a single somersault. He uses a Wishing Staff
he got from the Dragon Kings of the Oceans as his favorite weapon - it can
expand or shrink at its owner's command (he normally stores it in his earlobe).
He can turns clumps of his hair into any object he desires. His fiery eyes
can see through most illusions. Being made of stone, he is uncomfortable
underwater.
This beautiful hand painted porcelain mask measures overall about 12.5 inches Tall X 8.5 inches Wide and comes beautifully boxed.
He was sentenced to be cut up into small pieces, but the soldier trying to
carry out the punishment found they couldn't injure him. So the spirits of
the Fire Stars were sent in to burn him, but he didn't burn. The thunder
spirits had even less success in trying to hurl thunderbolts at him. The
combination of Monkey's Taoist skills, the Peaches of Immortality, the Wine
of Heaven, the food and the five bowls full of the Elixir of Long Life he
consumed, had made him truly indestructible. Even when Lao Tsu put him into
his Crucible of the Eight Trigrams and heated him with alchemic fire for
49 days, the only effect it had was to make Monkey's eyes permanently red.
Monkey escaped and then proceeded to run amok in Heaven in a rage, smashing
everything and beating up everyone he encountered.
At this point the Buddha intervened. The Buddha made a wager with Monkey,
betting him that he could not jump out of Buddha's hand. Should Monkey win,
he demanded the Jade Emperor's job; should he lose, then he would be banished
to Earth for centuries to learn some humility.
Monkey cloud-flew to the end of the universe, where he saw five pink pillars,
which he took to be the end of the world. On the middle pillar he wrote "The
Great Sage Equal of Heaven reached this place", to prove beyond any doubt
he had reached this spot. Figuring it was a long trip back, and being the
irrepressible individual he was, he also urinated at the base of the first
pillar. Then he returned to face the Buddha. To his shock, the Buddha informed
him he had never left Buddha's hand - and to prove it, showed Monkey the
writing on his middle finger and the distinctive smell at the bottom of his
smallest digit. Monkey tried to renege on the bet, but before he could escape,
Buddha pushed him out of the Gate of Heaven, then Buddha changed his five
fingers into the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth). They
became the five-peaked mountain under which Monkey was trapped, leaving only
his head and hands exposed.
After 500 years he was granted a chance to redeem himself by accompanying
holy man Tripitaka on a journey to the West as his companion and guard. In
order to keep him under control, a band of metal was put on his head that
Tripitaka could cause to tighten by muttering a chant - while this couldn't
hurt the indestructible imp, it would cause him extreme pain.
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