Talk:Transcendent Pig

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Hmm... Is this somehow related to Zhu Bajie?
 * No. They do appear to be opposites though --Auric 22:33, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

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We can keep this article, but let it be what it is, no more, no less. I'm sorry for having said that the article was meant to be a joke; now I think that it is based on some misunderstanding. I may not be trusted, but I have to say that there is no such a creature in Chinese mythology, not even in any hearsay; the Chinese characters are obviously made-up (ask anyone who knows Chinese); if there is a reference in the Larousse dictionary of mythology, the page number has to be cited. I am not a deletionist, but, alas, there is already too much false information on Wikipedia. :(--K.C. Tang 05:52, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * To quote the Author "When I get home I set to doing some research, as I want to make sure I’m not stepping on anyone else’s creative toes, or unconsciously ripping off someone else’s character development, before I turn the Pig into something more solid than a casual one-sentence mention in So You Want to Be a Wizard. I check my own reference to the Pig, and then check the one in Barry Hughart’s Bridge of Birds, the only other work of literature I know of that mentions the being at all. I do a big old web search and another search at the main library at Trinity, and find hardly anything. Through a mutual acquaintance I get in contact with Hughart (who never made any use of the character beyond the one throwaway reference) to see if he knows anything more about the Pig. He gets back to me in due time and adds a little info from another source besides the Larousse, a large work on Chinese mythology, but there’s really very little data, and nothing to prevent me going in the direction I’m heading already."
 * "So I write the Pig my way."
 * — Diane Duane, Meeting the Transcendent Pig
 * She also wrote this in the Errantry Wiki (currently off line) "The first references to him on Earth occur in a rare few Chinese documents of the late Han dynasty, where he is referred to as 卓越的豬 (the word “transcendent” can also be rendered as “remarkable”)."
 * --Roguebfl (talk) 22:27, 11 November 2016 (UTC)