From: pckyip@athena.mit.edu (Patrick C Yip)
Subject: Re: 3x3 Eyes Magic & Names List
Keywords: very long
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:27:45 GMT

[SPOLIERS] Everyone knows this must contain spoilers, right? ^_^

In article <axolotl.702724527@syzygy> axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au writes:
>
>I've attempted to put everything in order of appearance, and minimise
>the severity of the spoilers.  The romanization used is:  Pinyin (where
>I could work it out), then Innovation's (if sensible), and then the
>kana readings.

Hmm? I see only one romanization for each word?

>Sanjiyan Unkara (Three Eyes/Triclops)
>  The Sanjiyans are a beautiful, ageless creatures who are capable of
>  consuming one soul and merging it with their own.  Apparently, the

BTW soul of human can be seperated and looks like a round ball of jelly.

>  Sanjiyans are a degenerate race;  the older ones have become decadent
>  and callous, while the younger, more emotional ones will develop
>  split personalities.  Some Sanjiyans believe that this mental death

For novice: split personalities refer to sth like the double nature of
Pai/Sanjiyan, for example.

>Pai
>Parvati IV
>  of the same being, and aware of each other.  Parvati IV has to "sleep" for
>  a long time after performing powerful spells.  (In Hindu legend, Parvati
>  is the consort of Shiva.)

Finally I got a copy of Larousse's Encyclopedia of Mythology in a local
2nd hand bookstore... for 8 bucks!! A bargain :) Now it is the time to
check on the Hindu legend... I have the feeling that Parvati is one of the
three natures of ???? , which is her charming and gentle nature...
and she is the WIFE of Shiva.

>Yakumo Fujii
>  Pai's "Wu".

Whose father is a archaelogist professor, who went to Tibet to study the
legend of Sanjiyan, but died a natural death after he met Pai but before
he could get out of Yunnan (a province of China near Tibet)

At the start of the story he is 17, later had to quit high school to go
for the quest to find out the mystery of how Pai and him can turn to human.
In Japan, he usually worked in a gay bar: Culture Shock. (BTW he has no
 homosexual inclination) as a waiter.
In HK, he works as an employee of Yougekisha.
On his quest he learnt summon magic of beast-demons and other various spells.
Also later he studied in culinary schools, and can cook a lot of delicious 
 food!

Special feature is his seemingly forever closed slim eyes (seemingly, I must 
say). 
Ya == eight Kumo == cloud

>Wu (Nothingness) [also: Uu, Mu]
>  When a Sanjiyan consumes a soul, the "Wu" mark appears on the victim's
>  forehead.  The "Wu" is a zombie whose life depends on the Sanjiyan.

I disagree with the use of zombie despite the English translation's use of
it. Firstly, zombie is already dead, but is magically controlled to work
by its master; Wu is not dead, because he/she still has his/her soul (
although it's in its master 3eyes' body). Zombie can't think, has no emotion;
Wu can think, have consciousness, has emotion. Zombie eats no human food,
(dunno whether it needs any source of energy though); Wu will get hungry,
has to eat food like human. In short, Wu is just like human, but can
never die, because his/her soul is in his/her master 3eyes' body. Any
wound or injury suffered by Wu will be recovered in short time, even under
the situation of being blown up into pieces (although in this case it takes
much longer time -- more than one week-- for the Wu to be fully recovered)

On death of his/her master Sanjiyan, it's likely that the soul of the Wu
will be returned to the Wu. Although the story never says so (on the contrary,
it implies that when the Sanjiyan dies, the Wu dies), but I think this
will strength the devotion of Yakumo towards Pai. Otherwise, if Yakumo will
die when Pai dies, obviously he has to fight for her life no matter he loves
her or not! :)

>Takuhi (Man bird?)
>  Pai's "friend in the stick".

A harpy like creature. Living in Pai's stick, it can appear in enormous size
(my estimate is about 20m long and 8m tall), but it can also appear in
the size of a hand. Basically it has an eagle's body and a long face human
head. Hatched in eggs in the sacred-land, the native land of Sanjiyan tribe.

>Yougekisha (Monster Buster Inc.)
>  A Hongkong publishing company which eventually includes:

And accepts appointment of exorcise too.

>    Li Ling Ling (lit. ???)

Li is the last name, Ling means chiming bell.
A common lastname, which can be romanized as Lee in real life.

>    Mei Shin     (lit. ???)
>      who eventually falls for Yakumo (don't they all?)

Mei is beautiful, Shin is star.
The girl is one year junior to Yakumo, I think. And has a spotty face.
Under a special circumstance, she's likely to have lost virginality to a 
monster... (hmm...)
Later went to England for university, and became adept in martial art.

>    Steve Long   (lit. ???)
>      Mei Shin's brother, exorcist, and layabout.

elder brother (somebody might not know :), wear glasses and has rough beard,
Long == Dragon, which is also the last name of MeiShin.
He sometimes wears a robe of a Taoist monk, so people sometimes refers him
as Long Dao-Shi (Dao-shi is Taoist monk).
  
>Huang Song Lii (lit. ???)

Huang is yellow. A common Chinese lastname (like Li), and can be romanized
as Wong or Hwang in real life.
Song is a legendary character in Chinese mythology/history. He was said to
 solve the flooding problem of the Yellow River in the ancient time. His
 father was executed because of his unimaginative and incompetent attempt in
 trying to solve the problem.
Lii is another character meaning pretty/beautiful (Mei-Lii is the Chinese
 word for pretty/beautiful, very commonly used)

>Shunkai (Swift demon)
>  Shunkai is the true (monster) name of Huang-san.  She is a wealthy
>  Hongkong businesswoman who seeks to control the Sanjiyan.

And she lives in the peak district of HK island, I believe.
She has some very loyal followers who knows her ambition.
And later she is.... by .....

>Kaiyanwang (Demon-Eye King)
>Shiva I
>  Kaiyanwang is the ruler of the Sanjiyans.
>  It took the lives of every Sanjiyan (except Pai) to banish Shiva,
>  the last Kaiyanwang, to another dimension.  In Pai's dreamworld,
>  Shiva is not yet Kaiyanwang -- the title is held by a deformed
>  four-armed Sanjiyan.   (Hindu mythology is full of tales of
>  Shiva and the power of his third eye -- and how Parvati sealed it.)

Actually I think the dream was more or less the situation as happened in 
the past, but without Yakumo and Haan. I think the author (Yuza Takada)
didn't want to provoke the cause-effect dilemma of time-travel, that's why
he chose a dreamworld rather than time-travel to tell the past of Sanjiyan.
I think this is a wise move :)

Most of the books about Hindu mythology puts Shiva as Siva.
Siva's third eye is partly Parvati's fault in Hindu mythology. (that's a long
 story though)
And when Siva's third eye opens, light as bright as the sun will come from
 the third eye.
Siva is one of the biggest two or three gods in Hinduism. He has many 
 forms of incarnations, sometimes like a fish, sometimes a turtle, and
 later even the Buddha is one of his incarnations! (a deed to downgrade
 the influence of Buddhism by Hindu monks, it's said)

>Benares
>  Shiva's powerful "Wu", a feared master of beast magic.  At least 320
>  years old, Benares seems to have lost most of his humanity.  (Benares
>  is also a town in modern-day India, known for intense Shiva worship.)

Benares is a town along the River Ganges, and is south of Nepal.

>Konron (lit. "Kun mountains") [also: Kunron]

Actually Kun-ron is inseperable. The ron doesn't mean mountains.
In Chinese words, both Kun and Ron have the character of mountain (yama in
Japanese) above the characters, signifying they're characters associated
with mountains.

>  the mainland).  (Kun and Ron are special characters that were created
>  purely for place names.)

Without the characters of "mountain" inside the characters, the characters
can mean different things. Kun, for example, can mean close friends. Both
characters are ancient words that seldom used nowadays though.

>  Choukai (Charm Demon)
>    A Chinese man who, under Benares' direction, is also looking for Konron.
>    He commands Ran-Bao-Bao and other monsters.

He knows several magic using charms written on paper or on earth.
He himself has some special power as a final defense too.

>  Hong-Nyang (lit. "Red Maiden")
>  Ran-Bao-Bao (Wolf wild wild)
>    Hong-Nyang is a little red-haired girl who Pai befriended.
>    She can instantly change into the huge, vicious Ran-Bao-Bao.

Ran-Bao-Bao has four arms with claws. She can be summoned from another
dimension like Fei-Oh, it seems.

>  Konron (lit. "Kun mountains")
>    The range of mountains in northern Tibet. In Chinese myth, it is regarded
>    as the unknown place where the dead might achieve Buddhist Nirvana
>    (due to its impassibility and remotely western position relative to
>    the mainland).  (Kun and Ron are special characters that were created
>    purely for place names.)

This part is duplicated **

>  Teinzuin (lit. ???)
>     Head monk in the Tibetan monastery.
>  Gyerutsap (lit. ???)
>     Deputy monk in the Tibetan monastery.

Don't know what it means? (in Tibetan?)

>  Houasyou (Magical Snake)
>  Pai Ayanokouji (lit. ???)

Ayanokouji == ??? little road (even being a native Chinese can't tell the 
				meaning of all Chinese! :p :()
	      ??? is composed of the radical of "fiber,textile" and the
		character of "Rhombus"

>Tai-Soei (Grand Year)
>  A monster awakened by Huang-san to lure Pai out of Konron.  The swarms
>  of locusts are its food;  it also has control of a dagger, another
>  of the keys to Konron (like the incense burner), with which it can
>  possess people.

The dagger has the power to drain the "life energy" from the killed and
thus mummify them.

The monster is actually being hatched in a big egg hanging between Kunron
and the sky above Tokyo's trash bay (Dream's Island). It has many eyes, but
usually they are closed. It drains life energy from the earth to hatch.
     
>  (In Chinese mythology, Tai-Soei is a star who became a god.  There's
>  also a story about Tai-Soei being a cannibal monster who came out once
>  every year.)

>???

He has his name written on his name card... but I can't remember...

>  The journalist who wakes up one morning to discover Pai in his apartment.

He works in ??hi shinbun (newspaper). He used to be in the social section,
but was sent to the cultural section because his failure to get bigtime news.
Being in journalist for 16(?) years, he is more or less worn out.. until
he meets Pai.

>Hyouma (Possessor Devil)
>  The Hyouma are a magic-using Indian clan who need the Sanjiyans to
>  reproduce.  They are so powerful that babies will often possess
>  their mother while in the womb, causing shocking deformities.
>  The Hyouma aided Sanjiyans in battle, and in return Hyouma women
>  were made "Wu".  Thus, the baby could be safely "killed"
>  inside the womb and taken out before it possessed the mother.

Hyouma live in the Republic of ???? who is a very small country on the
border of India (reminds me of Sekkim). The leader of the clan is also
the king of the country.

The "magic" of Hyouma is to allow them to "merge" with other creatures or
monster, and thus possess the power of that creature. They are in the form
of human in normal time, but when necessary they can change the form to
harness the power of "merged" creature.
  
>Gupta
>  A tough Hyouma sorceress who attempts to capture Pai.  She has a
>  small pet, "Gatsu", who eavesdrops for her.

She used to have an affair with Galga, and thus carried a baby by him.
But, Galga doesn't really love her, and later indirectly killed her baby 
while it's still inside womb.

>Gaarhapatiyam Galga
>  Prince of the Hyouma clan.  A one-time lover of Gupta, he plots to
>  rule the world, and is adept with the 'Fakir's Horns'.

Fakir's horns is one of the traditional melee weapon in India.

>Kinkara
>  A wheelchair-bound, panther-masked figure who acts as Galga's advisor.
>  ("Kinkara" means "summon and serve", and is the Sanskrit word for a
>  side servant of FudouMyooOo [or "Acalanatha" in Sanskrit, which is...])

He could not speak either.
He was found by Galga sometime ago in the wilderness.

>Haan Hazurat
>  A shy, blond-haired magic salesman who Yakumo met while travelling in
>  Pakistan.  Haan gave Yakumo the eggs of Tou-Chau and Chin-Kuu when
>  Yakumo promised to introduce him to a Japanese girl.  Years later,
>  Haan caught up with Yakumo to hold him to his promise, and brought
>  the eggs of Shou-Rin and Kuan-Yaa.

He learnt Japanese exactly with the mind to know some Japanese girls, who
he thinks are the most attractive in the world.

Haan holds a feeling towards Pai too. And because of Yakumo's failure on his
promise, Haan has become an interesting rival/friend of Yakumo.

>???
>  The monster Yakumo fights in Malaysia.

To be precise, it's Eastern Malaysia, that is, places like Sarawak or Northern
Borneao.

??? want to live as human and they succeeded to do so. But after they lose
their lives as human, they would return as a giant, multi-armed, horn>Anubis
>  The Egyptian stone golem who is a guardian of Konron [?].  It asks
>  for proof of Sanjiyan and "Wu", or it will turn curiosity-seekers into
>  stone.  After remembering what he learnt from the 'Book of the Dead',
>  Yakumo was able to prove himself "Wu" to Anubis' satisfaction.

In Egyptian mythology, Anubis is one of the gods in hell (is it the sone
of the hell king, BTW?) He has a head of wolf, a body of human. He is the
judge of the dead when the dead comes to the hell. The dead's heart is
weighed against the feather of truth on a scale. Tatoh (the sand golem with
a bird's head in 3x3eyes) carries the record of the deeds of the dead and 
he also responsible for recording the trial. The creature ???? sitting 
beside the scale is a combination of several animals. It sits beside the
scale because it always wants the heart to become its food.

>Madurai
>  In Pai's dreamworld, Parvati III's elf-woman "Wu".
>  (Also a town in modern-day India.)
>
>Ganesha
>  In Pai's dreamworld, elephant-warrior "Wu" of the deformed Kaiyanwang.
>  (Haan notes that in Hindu mythology, Ganesha is the good-natured son of
>  Shiva - a clear contradiction.)

In Hindu mythology, he is the son by Siva and Parvati. 
He used to have a human head, but was chopped off by his dad, Siva.
It's because he was usually charged with guarding the entrance to Parvati's
palace, and he was so stubborn that he refused to let passage of Siva!
Parvati asked Siva to replace their son's head, and the first animal which
passed the spot was picked, which happened to be an elephant.
Ganesha used to have their tusks unbroken too (Do you notice in 3x3eyes his
tusk was broken?), but he's got one (or both) broken because...

>Parvati III
>  In Pai's dreamworld, Pai's mother. She (along with Shiva) volunteers to
>  be humanified, as her schizophrenia is apparently much more advanced
>  than Pai's.

Actually it's because she was wearing Shiva's claw. She was under the 
influence of the Shiva's claw, which was the creation of the deformed
Kuaianyan.

In normal time, she is a kind and gentle Sanjiyan, very different from the
rest of her tribe.

BTW in the dreamworld (or the past) Shiva was a good nature Sanjiyan too.
He despised the callousness of his tribe and so volunteered to be a human too.

>
>
>Magic
>-----
>
>Tou-Chao (Earth/Ground Claw)
>  A large, fast three-clawed monster which slices its opponents.
>  One of the most common beast magics.
>
>Shiva's Claw
>  A device which will keep a Sanjiyan in a naive state and suppress the
>  dangerous, powerful personality.  It also stops the Sanjiyan from
>  worry about anything (and he/she can easily defend themselves while
>  wearing Shiva's Claw).

This consists of a piece of cloth of palm's size with three holes for
the thumb, the middle finger and the tail finger to fit in. On the cloth,
there is a Sanskrit character.

As I figure out, the claw works in the following way for Pai:
Without the claw, Sanjiyan comes out unpredicatably (although she does
usually when Pai is tired or asleep). WIth the claw, Sanjiyan is prevented
from coming, so that she won't come out to wreak havoc. In return, she
can harness some power of Sanjiyan by chanting some sanskrit spell. However,
this power is never up to the level of a waken Sanjiyan. That's why Pai was
asked to take off the claw when Galga seems to be gaining the upper hand
in Vol.8

>Fei-Oh (Flying Jaws)
>  Pai's bloated airborne pet, whom she can summon at will.  Fei-Oh is
>  fairly resilient, and can change its size.

It has its eye in its mouth. It can attack with its mouth and tail.

>Kuan-Yaa (Shining Fang)
>  A beam of light with a dragon's head.  Used by Benares to attack
>  Yakumo, and later learned by Yakumo.

Very powerful, but it can be reflected by mirror.

>Chin-Kuu (Mirror Tick/Charm)
>  A defensive beast magic, capable of returning powerful attacks such as
>  Kuan-Yaa.
>
>Choang-Rin-Rin (Penetrating Spirit Rhombus)
>  This magic transforms a beast into a rhombus-shaped chip.  The chip
>  is implanted in the victim's forehead, permitting the beast to control
>  him/her.

When the magic misfired (e.g. cast by an inexperienced), both the victim
and the beast would degenerate and die.

>Chiru-Woh (???)
>
>Xi-Yao-Chong (Eat Monster Bug)
>  Macdonald used the egg of Xi-Yao-Chong to attack Benares.

It was used against McDonald ,Pai and Yakumo when they were imprisoned in
a underground cell by the monks.

>Huu-Yao-Chi-Chiu (Trap Monster Spider)
>  Used by Benares to attack Yakumo; also used by Madurai to counter
>  Gane-sha's Rei-Syou.
>
>Shou-Rin (Running Scale)
>  An amphibious skateboard-like creature that Yakumo uses for transport.

Actually it can't swim. That's why it failed Yakumo when he used it to
escape in Malaysia :)

>Cha-Lieh-Chong (Exploding Crack Bug)
>  A grenade-type beast magic.  Used by Madurai to attack Kaiyanwang's
>  soldiers.
>
>Rei-Syou (Lightning Serpent)
>
>Hou-Yuang-Hou-Chao (Burning ??? ??? Claw)
>  
>Hou-Lii-Chiya-Chong (Burning ??? Beetle)
>
>Tei-Chin-Chii-Chii-Chong (Earth Spirit draining bug)
>  Drains magical power from anyone to whom it is attached.
>
>Shi-Tien-Sheng-Jing-Fong-Hoang (Four heavenly holy spirits [fortress])
>  Defends against massively powerful attacks.

It summoned four spiral-shell like creatures sitting in a pyramid formation
with the castor inside.
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