Bull Demon King

牛魔王

Bull Demon King
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Ringkasan

Bull Demon King (Niu Mowang) adalah tokoh iblis dalam novel Journey to the West (Perjalanan ke Barat). Ia suami Princess Iron Fan dan ayah Red Boy, dan menampakkan wujud aslinya sebagai banteng putih raksasa.

Bull Demon King (Niu Mowang) is a demon character in the novel Journey to the West. He is the husband of Princess Iron Fan and the father of Red Boy, and reveals his true form as a giant white bull.

Kisah dan tradisi

Bull Demon King adalah tokoh sastra, bukan tokoh dari cerita rakyat atau ritual: ia berasal dari novel abad ke-16 Journey to the West (Perjalanan ke Barat) karya Wu Cheng'en. Wikipedia menyebutnya antagonis utama dalam novel itu dan banyak adaptasinya. Selain Bull Demon King, namanya juga diterjemahkan sebagai Ox King, dan ia menyebut dirinya Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven. Dalam novel, Sun Wukong menyebut Bull Demon King sebagai salah satu dari tujuh saudara angkatnya. Istrinya adalah Princess Iron Fan dan putranya adalah Red Boy, yang menurut dewa setempat ia utus menjaga Gunung Hao. Belakangan ia meninggalkan Princess Iron Fan dan tinggal di Gua Moyun di Gunung Jilei bersama Yumian Gongzhu, putri seorang raja rubah yang menawarkan hartanya kepadanya. Peran terbesarnya muncul saat Sun Wukong mencari kipas daun pisang (Banana Leaf Fan). Sun Wukong menyamar sebagai dirinya untuk menipu Princess Iron Fan, lalu Bull Demon King menyamar sebagai Zhu Bajie untuk merebut kipas itu kembali. Dalam pertarungan ia menampakkan wujud banteng putih raksasa; kepalanya yang dipenggal Nezha tumbuh lagi, tetapi tanduknya dibakar roda api dan cermin Heavenly King Li menahan wujudnya, sehingga ia menyerah dan istrinya menyerahkan kipas itu.

Bull Demon King is a literary character rather than a figure of folk tradition or ritual: he comes from the 16th-century novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. Wikipedia describes him as a major antagonist in the novel and its many adaptations. His name is also translated as the Ox King, and he styles himself the Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven. In the novel, Sun Wukong names Bull Demon King as one of his seven sworn brothers. His wife is Princess Iron Fan and his son is Red Boy, whom, according to the local deities, he sent to guard Mount Hao. Later he left Princess Iron Fan and lived at Moyun Cave on Jilei Mountain with Yumian Gongzhu, the daughter of a fox king, who had offered him her fortune. His largest role comes when Sun Wukong seeks the Banana Leaf Fan. Sun Wukong disguises himself as him to deceive Princess Iron Fan, and Bull Demon King then disguises himself as Zhu Bajie to retrieve the fan. In the fight he reveals the form of a giant white bull; the heads Nezha cuts off grow back, but a fire wheel burns his horns and the mirror of Heavenly King Li fixes his form, so he yields and his wife hands over the fan.

Konteks budaya

Nama Bull Demon King mudah tertukar dengan kuil "Ox King Temples" (牛王庙) di Tiongkok. Menurut Wikipedia, kuil itu secara tradisional dibangun untuk memuja dewa-dewa pertanian dan tidak dimaksudkan bagi tokoh dalam novel ini.

The name Bull Demon King is easily confused with the "Ox King Temples" (牛王庙) in China. According to Wikipedia, those temples were traditionally built to worship agricultural deities rather than the character of this novel.

Fakta utama

Budaya / Culture
Mitologi Tiongkok
Kawasan / Region
Asia Timur
Era
Character of a 16th-century novel
Klasifikasi / Classification
Demon
Habitat
Cave
Kemampuan / Abilities
Berubah wujud, Kepala yang tumbuh kembali

Nama lain / Alternate names

Ox King, Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven, 平天大聖, Niú Mówáng, Dàliwáng

Tahukah kamu? / Did you know?

Wikipedia mencatat bahwa tokoh Bowser dalam seri Mario terinspirasi oleh Ox-King, dan bahwa Shigeru Miyamoto pada awalnya membayangkan Bowser berwujud banteng.

Wikipedia records that the villain Bowser of the Mario series was inspired by the Ox-King, and that Shigeru Miyamoto first pictured Bowser as an ox.

Makhluk terkait / Related beings

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