He believes that adding to his powers will make people respect him more, however it does the opposite and causes the Monkey King to change his name to the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. The name is meant to show that he is worthy of everything and anything that the other deities are worthy of, but it instead makes people not want to be around him at all. The powers and the name then start to go to the Monkey King’s head and he feels as though he is above everyone else including Tze-Yo-Tzuh, the Chinese equivalent to God. The Monkey King went as far as saying that Tze-Yo-Tzuh is “by far the most pitiable” (Yang 77) out of all of the other Gods that he has encountered. Which results in Tze-Yo-Tzuh placing the Monkey King under a pile of rocks for being so stubborn and unwilling to change back. It is after some time that the Monkey King is finally willing to assimilate back to his true self and accepts who he
He believes that adding to his powers will make people respect him more, however it does the opposite and causes the Monkey King to change his name to the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. The name is meant to show that he is worthy of everything and anything that the other deities are worthy of, but it instead makes people not want to be around him at all. The powers and the name then start to go to the Monkey King’s head and he feels as though he is above everyone else including Tze-Yo-Tzuh, the Chinese equivalent to God. The Monkey King went as far as saying that Tze-Yo-Tzuh is “by far the most pitiable” (Yang 77) out of all of the other Gods that he has encountered. Which results in Tze-Yo-Tzuh placing the Monkey King under a pile of rocks for being so stubborn and unwilling to change back. It is after some time that the Monkey King is finally willing to assimilate back to his true self and accepts who he