Jidu & Luohuo, the sons of Sun Wukong in Journey to the South.
Many thanks as per usual to @journeytothewestresearch for the info they provide on the subject, and while it seems that there’s not much info on Jidu and Luohuo even in the book they’re mentioned in, I’ll include what @journeytothewestresearch put down:
“All three of Sun’s children [this also referring the monstrous ape woman Yuebe Xing, which I tried my hand at representing here:https://sketching-shark.tumblr.com/post/666449146671235072/yuebe-xing-monstrous-daughter-of-the-monkey-king] are named after planetary bodies associated with the moon in Asian astrology. His sons Jidu and Luohou are respectively named after Ketu (Jidu, 奇都) and Rahu (Luohou, 羅睺), two of the “Nine Planets” (Sk: Navagraha; Ch: Jiuyao, 九曜, “Nine Luminaries”) from Hindu astrology. These two shadowy planetary deities represent the respective southern (descending) and northern (ascending) lunar nodes, or points where the moon crosses the earth’s orbit around the sun. As such, the pair are associated with eclipses, and sources sometimes depict them as the head (Rahu) and tail (Ketu) of a great eclipse serpent. Other interpretations include Rahu as a disembodied head and Ketu as the torso, or Ketu as a comet or emerging from a cloud of smoke (Gansten, 2009, p. 652-653; Kotyk, 2017, pp. 59-60).”
I will say that while I do find dad Wukong a fun concept, the naming of his children in Journey to the South is one I find a bit confusing, as Sun Wukong isn’t associated with the moon or eclipses or indeed any heavenly body as far as I’m aware...if anyone knows why this might be, please do let me know!
Also if anyone could point to where I could read Journey to the South for myself I would appreciate it as I’m finding like nothing on it online (X_X)
