The hunshi sihou
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In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, the hunshi sihou are the chaotic gods of the Monk pantheon.
Description
The hunshi sihou are chaotic gods of neutral holiness, and their minions consist of monkeys, apes, owlbears, chameleons, carnivorous apes, sasquatches, doppelgangers, and gugs.
Origin
The hunshi sihou (混世四猴, lit: “four monkeys of havoc”) are four celestial primates that appear in the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West. The first of them - the "Stone-Monkey of Numinous Wisdom" (靈明石猴, Lingming shihou) - is none other than Sun Wukong, one of the novel's protagonists and main characters; the second and third are respectively the "Red-Buttocked Horse-Monkey" (赤尻馬猴, Chikao mahou) and the "Long-Armed Gibbon".
The last of them, the "Six-Eared Macaque" (六耳獼猴, Liu’er mihou), is encountered by Sun Wukong and his traveling group, and appears as a malicious monkey that is the exact duplicate of Sun Wukong himself - the duo battle across the sky, into heaven and then into hell before they eventually reach the Western Paradise in India and stand before the Buddha, who instantly recognizes the impostor. The Enlightened One gives the goddess Guanyin a short lecture on the four spiritual primates that fall outside of the ten categories of mortal and immortal life in the cosmos as described above, identifying the impostor Sun Wukong as the fourth kind; the fake attempts to transform into a bee and flee, but is trapped under the Enlightened One’s alms bowl, and Wukong kills the macaque with his staff.
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