Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit: A deep dive into Thorin and Bilbo’s complex bond Guillermo del Toro | Image by: Gage Skidmore, licensed under Cc-by-sa-2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsGuillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit could’ve been a whole different beast, literally. If the director had his...
Together with a mysterious donkey, they travel from town to town looking for a holy man willing to return to China and become the Kaifeng Jewish community’s new teacher, thereby reigniting their religious life. Bear arranges for the pilgrims to meet and stay with several such holy men—...
However, at the end, I do briefly discuss possible antecedents that may have influenced both tales. I noticed many of the parallels myself, but I am also indebted to the list (that I also contributed to) posted on the DEATH BATTLE! Wiki. I. Parallels 1) Origins –Both are born of ...
It is one of many Monkey King Temples on the island. Photo by the author. Update: 10-28-24 Someone on reddit questioned why I didn’t add a title for Monkey as the “Protector of the Peaches” or “Guardian of the Heavenly Peach Garden” (as mentioned by Wikipedia). This is how I...
A) “[C]old and heat,” (riyue,日月; lit: “sun and moon”) refers to respectiveyang and yinenergies (Pregadio, 2025p; see also Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 1, p. 527 n. 2). B) The original Chinese, “天關並地闕” (tianguan bing dique, or “heavenly passes and earthly watchtower...
I have mysterious texts (xuanwen, 玄文)! Wait for me the next day and I will give them to you.” The white ape then transformed into white light and left. Sun waited the following day. Suddenly, he saw the white ape fly from the northwest. He was given one scroll of mysterious ...
However, at the end, I do briefly discuss possible antecedents that may have influenced both tales. I noticed many of the parallels myself, but I am also indebted to the list (that I also contributed to) posted on the DEATH BATTLE! Wiki. I. Parallels 1) Origins –Both are born of ...
the “Second Samson“), a supernaturally strong Jew with knowledge of the various routes and personages of Historic Palestine. Together with a mysterious donkey, they travel from town to town looking for a holy man willing to return to China and become the Kaifeng Jewish community’s new ...
On this island are trees that bear as fruit women: shapely, with bodies, eyes, hands, feet, hair, breasts, and vulvas like the vulvas of women. Their faces are exceptionally beautiful and they hang by their hair. They come out of cases like big swords, and when they feel the wind and...
2. Appearance in later chapters The diamond cutter reappears in chapters 50 to 52 as a mysterious, white, shiny string of pearls used by the Great King One-Horned Buffalo (Dujiao si dawang,獨角兕大王) (fig. 2) to instantly disarm gods and defeat destructive elemental attacks. [2] ...