Post 10

Hey guys so for my very last post I will be recapping each of my fellow deities visits.

James Hohenloe- Sun WuKong The Chinese Monkey God
 This gods only weakness is that he is afraid of death.
Meghan - Coyote- Native American Trickster God
  Coyote is very mischievous, and he is always plotting against somebody
Savanna- Amentet- The Egyptian goddess of hospitality in the underworld
  She has the ability to re-birth the souls brought to the underworld.
Keely-Isis- Goddess of motherhood in the Egyptian deity
  In the religion of Christianity she is identified as the Virgin Mary.
Dani- Persephone the Greek goddess of spring and queen of the underworld
  Persephone has extreme empathy towards those who are suffering.
Lexi- Demeter the Greek goddess of agriculture
  Demeter keeps the soil fertile and creates bountiful harvests
Grace- Anubis the Egyptian god of the dead and ruler of the underworld
  He has a jackal head because he would roam the graveyards in the dog form searching for corpses.
Ethan- Pangu the Chinese god of creation
He has no family except for Yin and Yang because they created him
Mckenzie- Raven the Native American trickster god of mayhem
  Raven is associated with many different tribes
Natalie- the Egyptian goddess Nut of the sky
 In love with her brother Geb, but is forced to stay away from him.
Summer- Aphrodite the Greek goddess of beauty and love
  She is married to one of the ugliest gods but cheats on him all the time.
Katie- Freya Norse goddess of love and fertility
  Freya had a necklace stolen from Loki.
Alicia- Loki- Norse god of mischief.
  Loki absolutely hates Thor and is jealous because of how much Thor is worshiped
Grant- Odin-Norse god of Asgard.
  The day of the week, Wednesday, is said to be named after  one of his many names, Wodan.
Bailey- Hel- Norse goddess of the underworld
  Hel can predict the future and if she thinks you are worthy she will grant you the wish of knowing your future.
Abrianna- Lan-Caihe- Chinese deity of poverty
   Lan-Caihe's gender is mysteriously unknown.
Delaney: Nokomis- Native American goddess of the earth and Grandmother of the Earth.
   Nokomis is essentially the grandmother of everything and everyone.
James: Dionysus- Greek god of wine
  Dionysus can control the effects that alcohol has on his body, which comes in handy with his heavy drinking. He also carries a huge staff with this ginormous pinecone on the top.

Blog 9

Hey guys, I hate to inform you this is the last time we will be talking about The Love Legend of Zhou- Mu king and Xi-Wang mu.  Its been a lot of fun getting to share one of my favorite myths with all of you! This tale begins with Zhou- Mu king ascending the throne. He commanded 6 armies and led a expedition. He dealt with the Huns, by war and revived his kingdom. Zhou- Mu king was in an ongoing war with Quan-Rong. He began visiting many places, sea to sea. That's where he found me and our epic love story began. I of course fell in love with him, for his ambition and accomplishments. I prepared a banquet for him and afterwards we watched the sunrise and I begged him not to go. He promised he'd return when his kingdom was in order and happy again. We saw this tree and he said "let this manifest our love". Zhou asked me to leave my home and be his king, but I just couldn't. I visited once after he left. After that we didn't really see each other at all. I was told he attempted to come and see me several decades later, although he was ill and his advisors told him not to go. He ended up dying as a hopeless romantic.

Blog#8

Todays topic is resolution. Resolution is the ending to something, and it often ties up loose ends. In this myth The Love Legend of Zhou Mu-King and Xi Wang-mu, the part that seems to end the story is when Zhou Mu-King dies, leaving his last wish unfulfilled. I stand on top of my mountains awaiting his return only to realize he is not coming back to me. Zhou Mu-King was the most romantic monarch in Chinese history. He was my lover and he just died trying to visit me.

Blog #7- climax

I'm back.  Today we are going to talk about the climax of the myth we have been discussing in the last few posts. A climax is defined as the most intense, exciting, or important point of something. In my myth about how Zhou Mu-King, and I fall in love I'd say that the falling in love part is the climax. It is the most important part, or at least I think it is... The title of the myth is called the love legend, so obviously it is going to be the climax.  This part in these next few lines gives a broader view and depth into our story: "After the banquet, Zhou Mu-King and I watched the West. The King said he would go to remoter places, but I advised he didn’t go, and I said there were many ferocious and big raptors which liked to eat humans in the western endless desert. Mu-King smiled and said these things couldn’t stop him.
During our conversation, we saw a upstanding tree. The king said, “Let this tree manifest our love.” He carved the characters “The Mountain of Xiwangmu” (西王母之山) on the tree with his sword. I  leaned lightly against his shoulder, and felt peerlessly happy.
Mu-King promised to live with me for many days, and they returned my palace. But a messenger of the eastern states was waiting there." This is my favorite part.
One may also think the climax may be when Zhou Mu-King leaves me.
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Blog #6 - Conflict

I'm back guys! Today we are going to go over the conflict in the myth we have been talking about in the last few posts. Conflict is defined as  a serious disagreement or argument. In The Love Legend of Zhou Mu-King and Xi Wang-mu there are a couple ones. "Mu-King was angry, and decided to teach Quan-Rong a lesson. Zhaibo (祭伯), an old minister, advised Mu-King not to start wars to force other nations into doing things, and said virtue was a better behavior for making other nations obedient. Mu-King refused the sincere advice of Zhaibo" Mu-King was angry because Quan-Rong did not attend, along with the rest of them.  He got into an argument with him, and it turned into this big thing, a conflict. He ended up stealing the sacred animals from his kingdom.

Blog #5 -Character

Hi guys! So you remember how we were starting to go over that myth about me, and Zhou Mu-King? Good, because we are going to continue that by talking about the characters in this myth.
     Zhou Mu-King- This man was the 5th King of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty. Zhou may be described as being perhaps on of the most important kings of the Dynasty. He was said to live to the age of 105 before he passed away. Zhou loved to travel, all around, but he especially loved to visit the Kunlun Mts. where he found me. Due to his travel he was able to talk with other tribes and tried to sway their opinion to join him. He was more ambitious than wise, and his actions didn't always get the best of him. The expedition was more of a failure, than a success seeing as he only brought back four white wolves and four white deer. He seemed to love me, and once he left we missed each other all the time. Several decades after our last meeting, he remembered me and wanted to see me. He ignored his health and On the way, he became ill. People worried if he died the kingdom would be restless, and so they prayed to heaven that the journey would stop and so it did. The King died with his last dream unfulfilled.
     You already know lots about me, so I am not going to describe myself.
Now I will describe another group in this book.
   The Huns  (匈奴), which was called Xianyun (玁狁, 猃狁) by the people of the Zhou Dynasty were a huge enemy. They attacked often. Like the Zhou, the Xianyun fought on horse- drawn  chariots. They were mounted with bow and arrows which let them attack whenever.  They weren't a group to come into contact with. As written in the myth "The army chased Hun for a thousand Li (里. At that time, 1 Li=about 0.4 kilometers). After this battle, Hun was unable to attack China for a long time"

Here is a link to my myth! -https://www.ourorient.com/the-love-legend-of-zhou-mu-king-and-xiwangmu

Blog #4

Have you ever heard of myth called The Love Legend of Zhou Mu-King and Xiwangmu? Well even if you haven't, it's one of my favorites.  So you guys  can  understand it  easier I am going to break it up, and each post I make will be about a different part of the myth. Today I am going to write about setting. This myth is set in the 10th Century B.C.  Zhou Mu-King commands 6 armies and sends them on an expedition to  Chu (楚) State which was a southern state. It is described in this line where a warrior wrote these lines to his wife, “I miss you and my beautiful hometown, but I can’t return, because of Xianyun.”  The setting is seen as beautiful.  To people living there they saw it as that, but on the outside it seemed wartorn. They at war with the Huns.  In a second main setting, when he is with me in the Kunlun Mountains it is described as there being white clouds in the sky, and the reflection of the mountain being  spectacular. The way was remote, and separated by many mountains and rivers The aroma of the outside air, dirt, and other natural scents filled their noses. Zhou Mu-King, could smell the salty sea air, as he visited the different seas. Since his mode of transportation was in a chariot pulled by horses. one may also imagine the scents he smelled from the animals pulling him. The smell of the animal itself and the droppings that came from it. The sounds of horses feet clopping along the road, as they took Zhou Mu-king to his varied destinations, and  sounds of warfare between Quan-rong and Zhou Mu-King. With all the traveling he did heheard all the sounds of nature, rushing water, animals scurrying in the bushes, rustling of leaves. One last sound that is memorable in this myth is the sound of the blade on the tree as Zhou Mu-king engraves-“The Mountain of Xiwangmu” (西王母之山) with his sword. Again if you were to lay your hand down on the setting you would most likely feel things in nature. For Zhou Mu-King he felt the warmth of my body during his time in the Kunlun Mt. The inhabitants of the area, felt the suns warmth. At one setting where he is with me, a banquet is put on, where you could taste all the delicious food I presented to him.

My next post will be on characters....