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>>/76736/ I think Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey" is about Sun Wukong. He did a song preluding to 911. https://youtube.com/watch?v=CnVf1ZoCJSo 0:05 one eye 0:12 checker grid dark and light offices black and white suits, makeup, and table beans palm plant lights = illumination 2:30 fire and water(rain) duality, "pearls before the swine" the wooden dowel instruments form an X = Chi = Saturn the video tape wheel is a Sun disk kikepedia/wiki/Shock_the_Monkey Due to its title and the content of the video, the song is frequently assumed to be either an animal rights song or a reference to the famous experiments by Stanley Milgram described in his book Obedience to Authority.[3] It is neither, although another Gabriel song, "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)", from his 1986 album So, does deal directly with Milgram. Gabriel himself has described "Shock the Monkey" as "a love song" that examines how jealousy can release one's basic instincts; the monkey is not a literal monkey, but a metaphor for one's feelings of jealousy.[4] Cover me when I run Cover me through the fire (trial by fire) Something knocked me out' the trees Now I'm on my knees Cover me, darling please, hey Monkey, monkey, monkey Don't you know when you're going to shock the monkey > shocking the monkey = enlightening/evolving your primal aspect 0:40 chants "monkey" while violently slamming the table = Sun Wukong 0:45 "shock the monkey" *transforms into black/white form = yin yang Tao duality kikepedia/wiki/Journey_to_the_West The novel has 100 chapters that can be divided into four unequal parts. The first part, which includes chapters 1–7, is a self-contained introduction to the main story. > It deals entirely with the earlier exploits of Sun Wukong, a monkey born from a stone nourished by the Five Elements, who learns the art of the Tao, 72 polymorphic transformations, combat, and secrets of immortality, and through guile and force makes a name for himself, Qitian Dasheng, or "Great Sage Equal to Heaven". The first is Sun Wukong, or Monkey, whose given name loosely means "awakened to emptiness", trapped by the Buddha for defying Heaven. He appears right away in chapter 13. The most intelligent and violent of the disciples, he is constantly reproved for his violence by Tang Sanzang. kikepedia/wiki/Monkey_King After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, he later accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from the West (India) where Buddha and his followers reside. One of the most enduring Chinese literary characters, the Monkey King has a varied background and colorful cultural history. His inspiration came from the White Monkey legends from the Chinese Chu kingdom (700–223 BC), which revered gibbons and especially white ones.[4] These legends gave rise to stories and art motifs during the Han dynasty, eventually contributing to the creation of the Monkey King figure.[4] The Monkey King was initially developed in the book as a Taoist immortal or deity before being incorporated into Buddhist legends. His religious status is often denied by Buddhist monks both Chinese and non-Chinese alike, but is very welcomed by the general public, spreading its name across the globe and establishing itself as a cultural icon.[4] He is also considered by some scholars to be influenced by elements of both Chinese urban myths and the Hindu deity Hanuman from the Ramayana.