IN conclusion, I bring you the marvelous gods and goddesses of Capital High!

What did we learn children?

        Here are a few facts about the wonderful classmates I have, and details woven into their presentations. Shall I begin? Alright here we go!

1.) Ra(Isabelle)

• Sekhmet(Hathor), the daughter/creation of Ra, liked her image best when coated in the blood of slain humans. Sekhmet was a tool which Ra used to bring low humankind by culling them. 

2.) Thor (Sidney(Lamb-chop))

• The chariot of Thor is pulled by two goats, which Thor also eats. After eating them, the goats regrow into their uneaten forms.

3.) Odin(Ethan) 

• Odin wears two belts. This is not a fashion unique to Asgard but actually both serve individualized purposes. One holds his sword and scabbard, and the other holds the keys to Asgard.

4.)Loki(Rosie)

• This trickster God is actually the mother of Odin's eight-legged mount Sleipnir. You read correctly, Loki was the mother of a horse, despite being a male. The father is a stallion owned by a giant of unknown origin.

5.)Balder/Cassie

• The house of Balder is ornate to be for sure, and this is expected. What is rather unusual is that the pillars are made of silver, and the rest is made of gold. In this profusely decadent residence no evil can exist, befitting the characteristics of this gentle Nordic god.

6.)Freya/Rena

• When Freya couldn't find her Od (her husband) almost all of the plants in the seven realms withered, except for the myrtle Od slept under, that still lived.

7.)Set(Roseanna) 

• Set is god over numerous elements. He is God of wind, chaos, and sand. The vast ruinous edges of the Earth over which he rules are parched desert, mirroring his traits.

8.) Jade Emperor(Caleb)

• Before he was an emperor, before he was a god in fact, an enormous demon of great power was slaughtering men across China. All gods who attempted to stop the entity fled in defeat. The jade Emperor used the power of the Tao to destroy the monster with his mind! And eliminating this demon elevated him to god-status.

9.)Coyote(Thomas) 

• For an eternity, humans were without fire. Coyote gave them this. How did he do it? Well he stole it from rather secretive fire beings of course.

10.)Hermes(Connor)

• You may know of how Hermes stole Apollo's cattle. You probably don't know that after plundering them, the baby god sliced off their hooves and placed them back on, backwards. And so, Apollo's cattle were forced to walk backwards for a very long time.

11.)Artemis(Annelise)

• When hunting, Artemis was bathing in a stream in the nude. At this moment the prince Acteon was hunting also, and he happened upon Artemis. He stared at the sight for awhile before Artemis noticed. As soon as her dreadful gaze fell on him, he turned into a deer and fled. Then his dogs caught scent of him and tore him to pieces. There is even rumor that she laughed as the jaws of the hounds bit into Acteon's flesh. How disturbing.

12.) Isis(Maggie)

• After Osiris was dismembered by his own vile scheming brother, Set, Isis set out to "reconstruct" him. She found thirteen out of fourteen body parts. I will not state what the remaining one was, as it is rather 'private' and leave it up to imagination. So she conjured up a facsimile wrought in gold to replace the missing portion. It functioned fine, and with Osiris, Isis became pregnant with the god Horus. 

13.)Raven(Maxwell(Maximus))

• As a young little Raven, this deity was severely spoiled. So whenever he cried, he got exactly what he desired. Raven wanted light in the sky. So he bawled and bawled until his grandfather, gave him what we call the sun, the moon, and the stars.

14.)Apollo(Jamie)

• Many know of the famed oracles that told prophecies of Apollo on the isle of Delphi. These many do not know for the most part of the fierce monstrosity that guards that isle. Pytho is the name of the beast. A giant serpent, it wriggles in the Ionian sea, seeking out those who would harm the oracles.

15.)Horus(Kelsey) 

• Horus transforms into a lion now and then, despite the fact that he is a falcon god. 

16.)Osiris(Sydney)

• Day to day, Osiris reads from the book of the dead. In this book is written all the actions of the deceased. As the god and ruler of the underworld Osiris interprets the deeds of the shades. Armed with this judgment, he decides whether they stay in the underworld(normal shade) or go to heaven(good soul). Even worse, he may have the devourer of the dead consume them into nothingness.

Obvious or not, the wind fights a rock.

Air and stone

      For millennium, the magic stone sat upon the mountaintops raised high above the valleys of flowers and fruits. So began my story, as it has been told by many tongues. Caressed by the wind, coated in ethereal plants, and exposed to enchanted rays of the early suns, this rock became pregnant. After a particularly long period of pregnancy ( several decades), a stone egg the size of a ball emerged. Years went by as the rock grew in size, looking down upon the western island jungles. One day, cracks formed in the stone, and they widened quickly. Soon the rock shattered, and out of the rubble came a most curious creature. Case you don't already get the obvious hints, the creature is me. So anyways I swaggered out, and sat down and looked up at the sky. Only the Jade Emperor knows how long I stared at the sky, but as I looked over yonder his royal majesty was disturbed. Why was he disturbed? Because my eyes were glowing golden, and their light was brighter than the sun.So yes, that's how baby monkey demons are made. The battle here is rather too greatly symbolic for my tastes. You see, I was destined to follow my so called 'Parents' footsteps, either as stone, a statue chiseled out of rock, that or become like the wind, being swift and laughing. I thought about it for some time, but in the end I chose to be more like 'dad'(who wants to sit for all eternity as a star-gazer? Not me.). After I stood up and began to explore, I lost my golden touch, and was like any other normal monkey... demon. So I went on to prove myself to other apes and in conquering their trials, I became their righteous ruler.First I proved my bravery by leaping off a waterfall, second I proving my strength by defeating some trials. Then of course trying times, and struggles, blah blah blah blah. Actually becoming the Monkey King was the easy part, now keeping the throne? That is and was hard.All this awesomeness was merely too much for the monkeys, so they made me their king.

So I wasn't standing there anymore

How to solve the problem of being in place, and not moving. The answer?   Walking.

   

     Seeing that the conflict is just moving out of place, the resolution is obviously moving. After moving, I began to wander, began to eat and slept my glow faded. Without glowing eyes, and being transfixed upon the gyrating stars I was just another monkey... demon. And so began my gathering of the ape peoples, and I was to become their totally awesome ruler, the great sage equal of heaven.

So I was standing there.

The climax is(drum roll please)... actually moving!

      While I have already stated the conflict present in my tale, the epiphany of the struggle is actually stepping aside and walking away. Though I may be known for my amazing Kung Fu action, this tale is sadly bereft of any such slaughter. The tale is a brief one, more of an introduction that leads up to my 81 trials in Journey to the West.  The conflict begins as I clamber out of my egg, I gaze at the heavens for several days. After some intense staring at the sky, I move and as I begin exploring the world around me, the aforementioned conflict ends and the real trials begin.

The struggle is literally being born, this is NOT your typical conflict.

The fight to exist?

          In every tale there is a conflict, in this tale of my creation the conflict is the creation itself.  There are no battles, no enemies, only the fight to exist. What is this battle I fought? The battle to exist is one of coming into the world ( though I came silently). I came into the world in an egg, so the battle is not one of making myself, that was done by my 'parents'. Rather the fight was the one of willing to move and live. I sat for days with my own gleaming eyes transfixed upon heaven, and could have sat there forever. A decision, which is made by two differing thoughts. I decided to live and move, not contemplate the stars(who does something so boring anyways). I choose the wise path, and became the immortal Monkey King. Otherwise, I would still be standing as still as statue( quite literally, being made of stone and all that).

The vast array of characters incurred by the stroke of the historians pen. Basically, me, a rock, a messenger, and the ruler of the universe.

Characters in the tale 

      Now, this story doesn't exactly have a large amount of complex characters, but it does have a few. Firstly, since the tale centers around me I am obviously present. Should you mere mortals be unaware of my magnanimous repute and great titles, then I'd be the Monkey King(he who is aware of the void). So in general summary we have Me, my mother (a glowing rock of magic and happy sunshine(no really, she is)), my father(the winds), the Jade emperor in all his talk of "being the greatest being in the universe and stuff", as well as his attendant court. There are references to some of the heavenly messengers,scholars, and star-watchers as well. Otherwise, these few characters occupy the lofty position of being present in the tale of my birth. Should it not be clear as to what this tale is, wait and you shall see.

China is where its at folks, Point of origin and what not.

Where do I come from?

Well, there are two ways to go about my location as the monkey king. One, in the actual world you touch and see, I am present in all of China and the general orient. In the mythologic plane of existence, I come from the mountain of flowers and fruit, located in the far western sea. This is a lush island with waterfalls, trickling streams and forests speckled with apes.

References, works of art, and all related items in popular culture (HAVING TO DO WITH ME)

* The journey to the west = One of the three great novels of Chinese literature, this tale centering around the search for the sutras. The most recent form of the book was written in the 17th century, but the tale is almost two thousand and three hundred years old. 

*The monkey king = This upcoming movie, to be released later this year, is one of the many re-adaptions of my story put in film. The movie is being filmed and marketed mainly in China, and will garner most of its revenue from the area. 

*Havoc in Heaven = Centered mostly on my destruction of Heaven, and the following consequences, this popular Chinese Opera has been around for awhile. Renowned for its high level of intense action( Yes, lots of Kung Fu), I crash banquets, crush armies, and destroy palaces by the dozens.

The tale of a monkey in an egg, with glowing golden eyes... Nevermind, just read it.

When I was born, Hospitals weren't a thing

      You whippersnappers with you wonky gidgy-gadgets and your sanitized  hospitals. Well, when I was born several tens of thousands of years ago(give or take a few centuries) there was no such thing. Even if their had been, it is doubtful they would admit a pregnant rock. Well since my mother was a magical stone atop a mountain on the isle of Flowers and Fruit, no doctors were attendant. You see, my mother exposed to powerful energy from the heavens, covered in potent fungi, and caressed by the wind developed a magical womb. Took a little longer than your average nine months, but eventually a stone egg(that is me!) was released.  The egg grew and grew, until it was the size of boulder, and as it was torn asunder I emerged in all my glory. Though I myself was made of stone, I was like any other monkey. For days after my birth, my eyes shined like gold. Their radiance was so great that on heaven, the Jade Emperor was blinded in one of his meetings. So when he sent someone to check out the 'mysteriously awesome golden beams', he learned of me. Eventually the light began to fade from my retinas(I was tired of not being able to see anything anyways) I got up and moved around. So ends the tale of my birth. What, why do you sit there so confused? What more I do I need to say?

My parents are the sky and the earth. Guess Mom and Dad are always with me.

Baby pictures of a stone ape

So as it happened, I was born from a rock. At the time of my birth, the universe was in a primordial state and there wasn't much to be had. After wandering the four corners of the Earth, I came to rule a kingdom of Monkeys. When my subjects starting dying from old age, I thought "why die when you can live forever?" and got to work on that. So I started on a journey.

Whacking Demons, jumping 30,000 miles in a single somersault, immortality, those sort of things.

I went about my time learning how to walk on clouds, earning titles ( most of which were secret insults), slaying demonic entities. You know, the usual. After I learned some things from a monk by the name of Subohdi (like how to do the best somersaults you have ever seen and how to shape-shift, of course.) I decided I would go under the ocean and just steal a weapon of mass destruction or two from my good old friend Ao-Kuang, the dragon king. I 'persuaded' my way into his treasury and found the "Ruyi Jungi Bang", or The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod after looking at some useless junk. I did this because of a small problem me and my subjects were facing back home, just a gigantic fearsome monster that wanted to devour us. When I showed him the door, I decided to grow to be proportional to my massive staff, or grow to be 14 feet tall that is. Later on I learned a little more, things like seeing evil, breathing underwater, and general powers you would tend to associate with a powerful entity.

The 'Immortal dream', living the heavenly life of havoc and chaos.

I was pretty intimidating, with my alliances to the Saurian Demons, the Bull Demons, the Lion Spirits, and the other Demonic animalistic presences around the universe. The Jade Emperor was completely unappreciative of my pure awesomeness, and I didn't like that. In order to try and calm me down, he brought me to heaven. I thought he was going to make me the god I deserved to be. Nope, not even close. He made me the protector of horses. I thought the idea was great until about 5 seconds in. The job was terrible, and I ranked lower than cloud horse manure. So I proclaimed myself "The Great Sage, Equal of Heaven",destroyed the stables, set the horses free , and allied with some powerful demons. It took them a little while, but they eventually learned I was worthy of the title. Then they dared exclude ME from a banquet of the gods, so I ate the peaches of Immortality,the pills of longevity, and the royal wine. You know, it was quite delicious. The Jade Emperor didn't like this, so he sent his 100,000 celestial soldiers after me. You think that an army of god-soldiers could beat a monkey! Well, as it so happened they were the worst lot of eternal warriors you've ever heard of. So I obliterated them.

Buddha the trickster? Not what you would expect.

I destroyed most of Heaven's forces, and went about my merry way. Without the means to defeat my immensely amazing powers, the emperor went crying to Buddha. Buddha challenged me that I could not leap off his hand. Being the best long distance jumper in all existence, I agreed. So I clambered up, and leapt off his hand, landing near the five pillars at the edge of the world. I laughed and jumped back, only to realize that I had never left his hand, the five pillars were his fingers. I tried to escape. Tried being the keyword, Buddha turned his hand into a mountain and Imprisoned me there for five hundred years. You cannot hope to assume how enormously boring it is to be trapped in a mountain for FIVE HUNDRED YEARS!

Not how I expected to end up.

Bodhisattva Guayin was looking for a disciple to protect a eastern monk on his journey to India to retrieve the Buddhist Sutras. I was available, and my 500 years were up. Chastised, I helped to protect a young monk on his way. The monks name was Xuanzang, and he tricked me into wearing a irremovable headband that caused intolerable pain when I misbehaved. Joined by Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, we protected the man on his way to the scrolls. The journey was long, and I suffered, blah, blah, blah. So we ended up encountering 81 tribulations, or rather, 81 trials. I was granted the powers of Heaven to combat those who dared oppose us, which in hindsight was extremely helpful. I was cleansed of my sins when all was said and done, and  I achieved Buddha-hood. For those who aren't Buddhist, I became Immortal, and now I write to you of my long journey.  \

My personal family life. A.K.A. my lack of any family life.

I have no family. Is there anything else to say? Well if you really want to go into detail ... I have no wife, I have no kids, I have no cousins, I have no aunts, uncles, grandparents. You want to know why? Because my Mom is a rock, and my Dad is the sky. Not the sort of things that are like build up families. Reunions have always been boring, nobody even came to my 80,000th birthday party, and I know online dating isn't for me. 

Behold my handsomeness!

You already know how I look, but anyways...

I stand 14 feet tall(don't ask me what the weather is like up here), and have both human and monkey features. Though I am a shape shifter, no matter what form I take, I always have my tail present. Not much else to say.

Animals, Plants, and Symbols related to me.

I am the MONKEY KING, do I need to say anything else?

Point of Origin

Should you not be able figure out by way of common knowledge that I am a Chinese god, I am a Chinese god.The part having to deal with Buddha represents the scale to which he has infiltrated Chinese Mythology since his enlightenment  around 2,500 years ago.

My Culture = China.

I can't be pin pointed to any particular religion, because in Chinese mythology, religions mix like smoothies. I have links to Buddhism, Taoism, and a little bit of Confucianism. All intertwined at one time or another, creating the motley mix we have today.