#hundun

[aurelion-solar]

Spirit Blossom Ahri - TFT Chibi Champion Cinematic

#ahri #spirit blossom ahri #league of legends #league of legends skins #promo art #spirit blossom #hundun #little legends #official

[evolutionsvoid]

I already know that this entry is going to drive Eucella crazy, what with my...limited knowledge on this species. To be fair though, the information we have on this species as a whole is rather meager, but I feel like it would be a missed opportunity if I didn't write at least something about it! It is important that my readers know of every species, even those we have yet to fully understand! Indeed, I know Eucella is going to be furious at the idea of adding in an entry that is mainly scraps and shoddy guesswork, but when has her temper ever stopped me before? Onwards, I say!

This entry is on the Hundun, a species I feel that a lot of folk aren't even aware of. It would certainly make sense, as not a lot has ever been said or spread about this creature. One of the big factors for this is because the Hundun has (currently) only ever been found in one cave network in one specific region of the world. And even then, one needs to go in real deep to find them, so much so that discovering this species was pretty much an accident, done when an explorer got lost in the labyrinth of tunnels. Thankfully, a rescue team was able to find them and get them out so that their story could be told, resulting in a group of better equipped researchers going in to confirm their existence. At the time, most people thought the poor sap had gone crazy, losing their mind in the absolute darkness and silence only a cave can create. When researchers found the chamber deep within the network, the fantasy was found to be real.  

So what is a Hundun? A good question, because we are currently still trying to find a way to properly answer that. They got no bones, so we can strike a whole branch of life out the equation there. No real exoskeleton means another chunk of the tree taken out, but once we rule those pieces out, we have very little else to narrow it down with. There are a staggering amount of creatures out there that have no bones and aren't bugs, and we still struggle to even sort those properly! Now, we find a species in the depths of some remote cave network, whose anatomy makes even less sense. Back to the question of: what is a Hundun? The answer is that it is a blob of juice, jelly and odd organs that is wrapped in a thick membrane and given six "legs" and four "wings." I stress those words because we don't really have the confidence to truly say that those are what they are. The "wings" have had some folk liken them to gills, yet the Hundun has been seen flapping these appendages and gliding with them from time to time. But no real flight has been observed, and their use of them as a glider is quite sparse. As for their legs, they do aid in travel and climbing, as these are what they use to cling to cavern walls. However, despite their claws, there are no other rigid structures to them, and openings on the bottoms of these "feet" makes these limbs feel more like protruded orifices. And those aren't even the weirdest parts! If one ever got a good look at a real live Hundun, they would have the same question as every researcher: Where's its face?!

Indeed, the striking thing about the Hundun is that it doesn't appear to have a face, or head, or anything we could equate to a noggin. The front of them ends in a smooth membrane, as blank and curved as an egg shell. There are no eyes, no nose, no mouth, nothing. Now some may point out that just because it doesn't have the typical organs and holes that common animals have on their face doesn't necessarily mean they are faceless. Surely there is something there, we just aren't seeing it! And aren't their plenty of cave animals with no eyes? Correct you are! However, when I say they don't have these things, I literally mean they don't have them. On the surface of their front end, we cannot find anything that we could equate to the usual sensors or openings that other creatures have. Perhaps, these special organs are found within the body, but that is another mystery we have yet to figure out. We can't exactly cut a Hundun open and lay it out for all to see. This is because their bodies are practically bags of gelatin just waiting to pop and slosh to the floor in a sloppy mess. Their organs and insides are so sensitive and fluid-like, that they pretty much melt into a puddle of useless juice once their hide is ruptured. Attempts at dissecting dead specimens has resulted in incomprehensible slop and zero answers. Some have used magic to freeze samples solid before cutting, but this process inevitably causes damage to the organs and insides, so we cannot observe them as they normally would be. It's just....baffling. 

If it has no face, how does it breath? How does it eat? Plenty of these questions arise when faced with such an enigma. Breathing is one we feel we figured out, pointing to the wing gills and the soft damp nature of their membrane. We think they can pull in air through these gills and even straight through their skin. As for eating, we have wondered if the skin breathing can also result in skin eating, where it can absorb particles from the air or stuff that settle on their skin. The discovery of their foot orifices now makes us think they eat through those, sucking up food as they walk or cling to the walls. What do they eat? Not really sure. Don't have much of a stomach to open up and poke around through. Probably lichens and tiny creatures that live on these cavern walls, as we have never seen a Hundun chase after food or hunt anything of notable size. What we do know is that their diet is so niche, that keeping them alive outside of these cave systems is near impossible. Specimens removed for long periods of time will starve to death, or die from complications due to eating something that doesn't settle well in their system. All attempts to keep them alive outside of their cave system has been met with failure, so all research is done just outside of these caverns, temporarily capturing specimens for quick tests and observation, before immediately putting them back.

Thankfully, we do know that they lay eggs, but how they get the stuff to make and fertilize eggs, we don't know. No mating rituals have been observed, and no mated pairs have been spotted in the cavern. They simply lay eggs, that then hatch into more Hundun. So even there, are answer is laughably simple.

So if we are utterly clueless about the workings of the Hundun, then what does the world think of them? To be fair, most of the world doesn't really know they exist. Live specimens don't survive long, and preserving dead ones isn't easy either. Any preservatives eventually melt them into colorless goop, and taxidermy doesn't really work on a bag of juice. And with our sad amount of information, most folk would think it is all a lame researcher joke. Locals wound up having stories about this species, but this was all veiled in legends and myth. Tales of ghostly spirits in the depths of the caves, of lost souls in the pits of a dark hell. Obviously, most folk thought these were ghost stories, but now with a glowing orb of living flesh, it feels that these were encounters with the Hundun long ago. Even now, the people of the region speak of this species as a primordial creature, one that has been around since the forming of the world. Some even claim that these creatures are tiny unborn worlds themselves, walking eggs waiting for their day to hatch. It is times like these where I do not turn to my usual scoffing of superstition and dramatics, because I feel that they are onto something here. A primordial being, not a bad theory! Perhaps the Hundun are truly a prehistoric species, one that existed countless centuries before! Isolated in the depths of the earth, far from other creatures and the ravages of nature and time, there is no telling of when they split from the rest of life, or perhaps when the tree of life diverted from them! This could be an incredible case where we found a pocket in the world where time froze, where the ancients still survive to this day! It is an incredible thought, now if only we could figure them out in the slightest!

One last frustrating note: one of the times I was doing research down in the Underworld, my travels took me to a remote cavern town in my pursuit of strange new specimens. While I was visiting, I spotted Hundun on some of the cavern walls, and just as I was going in for a closer look, I saw a demon and their imp playing with one! I was quick to ask about what they were doing, and they straight up tell me that these Hundun are like pets to them! Adorable little squishy beans! I nearly burst out of my own bark hearing this, because here was a community of people who have interacted with these things for decades, perhaps centuries! Such close contact with this species that has never been documented before! I almost threw all my current notes into the nearest fire, because here was my new research! My new thesis! My masterpiece! I would be able to find out answers about the species that puzzled researchers for decades! So I didn't waste any time, barraging everyone with questions about the Hundun and what they know of them. You know what I got? "No idea, but they sure are cute!" THAT'S IT!? YOU PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH ONE OF THE GREATEST ENIGMAS IN NATURAL HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY FOR DECADES AND YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM?! I ask "what do you feed your pets?" and they say "oh we don't feed them, they somehow do it themselves." I say "isn't it weird you don't feed these things? Haven't you noticed what they do when they're hungry?" and to that they say "Yeah, it sure is weird, isn't it? Got no clue, but they seem to be doing fine!" I sadly admit that my research of this town and the Hundun had to be cut short for that trip, as my guides had to drag me out of there before I had a total mental breakdown. I will probably have to wait awhile before going back, because I think my crazed screaming rant in the middle of town left a rather poor impression.  

Chlora Myron

Dryad Natural Historian

Oh good! An entire entry of you just saying "I don't know!" Wonderful! Excellent! Just what your book needs, Chlora! You are doing this on purpose, I swear! - Eucella -

#hundun #monster #creature #art #drawing #a squishy little thing #not sure what else to call it!

[colorfulmess14]

We will get back to the usual Ninjago fanart in a minute. I just need to get this guy out of my system. Anyway, I made a monkie kid OC just for this post I might as well name her.

#art #artists on tumblr #monkie kid #monkie kid syntax #syntax #Monkie kid oc #oc #poll #comic #digital art #hundun #business au #artwork #fanart #artist #fan art #fanartist #artist on tumblr

[dorothygale123]

No, I'm not making excuses to talk about these figures more, because I DONT NEED THEM. I don't need this cute little chonker or his doodle-bopper, this post is for academic purposes! You see, Hundun isn't just a cute little nugget, he's also a primordial creation deity.

Hundun is often seen seen as a being of primal chaos from which the rest of the universe was created. As I stated previously, 2 gods (named Shu and Hu) felt bad for him and tried to carve him a new face. Shockingly, this had rather painful results and killed our little chonker. The universe supposedly came to be from his corpse, similar to the world egg. This could lead to the interpretation that Hundun is the world egg and that Shu and Hu trying to give him a face is what caused it to crack.

Whatever the case, he doesn't seem to have stayed dead as he's often reported to be among the creatures that live on the myhtical Mt Kunlun. He runs up and headbutts good people (like a cat), and leans on bad people (also like a cat). Basically baby boi is a six-legged, four-winged, headless, tailless chubby cat.

I also said that he was part of a set of creatures along with Taotie that mirror the 4 Guardian Beasts, so let's talk about those guys while we're at it. Together they're called the Sixiong, meaning 4 Fiends or 4 Evils. As far as I can tell they don't directly correlate with specific guardians (i.e. Suzaku, Byakko, Genbu, and Seiryuu), it's more that the group as a whole mirrors the Sixiang.

First up, Taotie. This guy, as previously mentioned, likes to eat so much he just full on ate himself. Yikes. He's described as looking like an ox with human hands and horns coming out of its back like a hedgehog.

Unfortunately, the next 2 don't have adorable minis, so we'll have to make do.

Something between a tiger and a dog with boar tusks and a human face, Taowu is one freaky looking peice of work, just like his friends. He's extremely stubborn and aggressive, willing to pick a fight with anything he comes across. Luckily, he's also very susceptible to reverse psychology as asking him to eat you will make him refuse out of spite.

Last but not least we have Qiongqi, who is supposedly descended from the Yellow Emperor. He's a huge tiger with wings and horns out the everywhere. It hates righteousness, so if it hears two people arguing it'll bite the head off the one who's right and the noses off everyone who agrees. Then he sidles up to the asshole and starts brining them his kills like a house cat. A massive, horned, man-eating house cat.

One thing I noticed is that while the Sixiong are all really monster-y, the Sixiang are a lot more normal in comparison. Suzaku is a big bird and Byakko is a big tiger. Even Seiryuu, the dragon, is part of a recognizable species. The only member who doesn't always follow this rule is Genbu, what with him being part turtle part snake, but even he is a lot less mixed up than any of the members of the 4 Fiends. It should also be noted that he just gets depicted as a big turtle a lot of the time anyways. An interesting point of contrast, I think.

Sh*tpost Masterlist

#mythology sh*tposting #chinese mythology #hundun #tao tie #qiongqi #taowu #4 evils #4 fiends #seiryuu #genbu #suzaku #byakko #the 4 guardian beasts #sixiang #sixiong #mythology #lmk #lego monkie kid

[cerberus253]

Watched “Monkey King: Hero is Back” (2016) and Húndún reminded me of someone. Visually, at least.

#they could be best friends #the legend of zelda #tloz #zant #monkey king #hero is back #hundun #meme

[flashcotton]

"What has jamie been up to the past few months...?" why, making a comic for Ionosphere, of course :]

Space! Tech! Time loops! Gamers! Food reviews! Post-apocalyptic wastelands! it's 120 pages of crazy good Sci-Fi coming at you HOT across a wicked range of B/W art styles and emotions 🌟 organized by @mashazart​, penned and inked by indie comickers like yours truly.

book $20, PDF $5, preorder here (may 1 - may 31): https://iznankapress.bigcartel.com

follow @iznankapress​ for more previews and other news!

#comics #indie comics #science fiction #comic #ionosphere #aimlessly #shu #hu #hundun #flash drew #artists on tumblr

[flyingfrogfish]

Love the green little dog from the new Teamfight Tactics set!

#Teamfight Tactics #Hundun #Inkborn Fables #digital art

[shirasagiao]

https://www.ac-illust.com/main/detail.php?id=24840514

イラストACにて配布中のストックイラスト。山海経より「帝江」です。もちもちとかわいらしい様子が出るように我が家のねこの姿を参考にしながら描きました。

オリジナルサイズのイラストは上記リンクからご覧ください。

#山海経 #怪物 #神様 #帝江 #watercolour #sketch #monster #fantasy #china #Hundun #渾沌 #asian #illustAC #illustration #イラストAC

[jense-doodles]

H for Hundun

Here is a very late week H of Alphabet superset :) Hundun is in one of my favourite games :o (spelunky 2).

#hundun #alphabet superset #new zealand artist #digital art

[salted-bird]

Uuuh, somehow this ended up looking like WhiteNight, I think Lobotomy Corp is getting into my brain.

#Hundun #Hakuro draws #Charcoal #Mixed Media #Chinese mythology

[angelicapocalypse]

• New Characters?! •

#Heroes Of Mythic Might #Jiuying #Hundun #Lord Donghua #Other Games #my screenshots

[aurelion-solar]

TFT Little Legend: Hundun - Divine Spring - Blooming - Two Spirit - All Seeing - Nebulus

#teamfight tactics #tft #little legends #hundun #divine spring hundun #blooming hundun #two spirit hundun #all seeing hundun #nebulus hundun

[simayeeet]

Hundun's traditional appearance as a blob with wings reminded me of Pochita from Chainsaw Man

tried to make Hundun look like a blob dog

#warriors orochi #its me #im squatting in the tag like its no one's business #musou orochi #hundun #tbh i was p happy with these and thought maybe #*twirls hair on finger* making a chaos demon into a multilegged blob dog was cute

[mortallyclearwonderland]

Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness - "Forsaken and Furious"

Episode 78 overall 

Synopsis:

The Furious Five grow tired of the villagers not respecting them, even their old enemy, Hundun, doesn't see them as a threat anymore, as Po gets all the credit, which has them believing him to be responsible for the loss of respect. However, after their master revealed a portrait of Po being lifted by the Five and witnessing his efforts in trying to cover up, the Five realized that Po had nothing to do with the loss of respect from the villagers as they realized that it is all Shifu's doing, which leads to an argument and the Five quitting the Jade Palace to strike out on their own. Meanwhile, Junjie allies himself with Hundun to take down Po and Shifu. After Po gets captured, Shifu goes to the Five for help as he admits his mistake and apologized to them as they worked together to stop their enemies. Through their victory, the villagers respect the Five again.  

Characters:

When people ask for more Furious Five content I don't think this is what they have in mind.

In this episode, villagers don't appreciate the Furious Five and put Po on a pedestal. It's not that out of character, not that a mob of people can have one character but I digress. We've seen it time and time again. In one episode they can be fanboying over the Five and Po and in the next, they'll be laughing their asses off because one of them tripped or something.

One of the villages is way too happy over Po possibly killing Hundun. Psycho!

The only compliment I can give is that the Five aren't angry at Po for it. He even opened the episode by telling a story about how awesome his friends are. Po acknowledges he couldn't beat Hundun without them and thanks them. It's not his fault everybody turned into an ungrateful jerk. 

The one really out of character is Shifu. Suddenly he's feeding Po's ego and undermining the Five. Which is so stupid. Constantly throughout the show, Shifu is shown punishing Po for his wrongdoings and snuffing out Po's ego, and the idea that the Dragon Warrior might be more important than anybody else.

Look at this painting! I don't know if he painted it himself or if was it commissioned but there's no way a Shifu from any other previous episode would've been okay with it.

Also, Shifu can't say sorry to his students now. The same guy that said sorry to Tai Lung can't say it now. He does say it but it was way harder for him than it should.

Poor Po is at the center of this awkward situation. He tries his dame best to make Shifu and the Five make up and show the townsfolk how great his friends are. Unfortunately for him, the plot demands that villagers are blind and stupid, and Shifu and Five are out of character. When he is tied up and screams for his friends to leave him and save the town I felt that. The voice actor did a phenomenal job. The episode ends with him passing out from all his injuries. He didn't even get the ending hug. Po was such a trooper in this episode!

If you're not bothered by characters not acting like themselves and care for the story alone then it episode is good. For me, it's just frustrating. And it's a shame cause there are a lot of things that I liked. Po and the bad guys had some of my favorite moments in the whole show.

Villains: Master Junjie and Hundun teamed up.

There's a joke at the beginning that Hundun wants to fight Po and doesn't care about the Five and it carries for the rest of the episode.

Junjie is the only one who acknowledges that the Furious Five can show up and help Po, so he plans to get rid of them first.

They don't even have to do anything! The Five lives out of their own will. They even make a joke about how so many unexpected things happen that they have to constantly change their plan.

In the end, they want to try blow up the town with only five barrels. One for every member of the Furious team.

Po and Junjie make it seem as if the place will be wiped out from the face of the earth, meanwhile, a couple of buildings would just topple over at most.

#Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness #Kung Fu Panda #kfp #Po #Shifu #Master Shifu #Master Tigress #Tigress #Master Mantis #Master Crane #Viper #Crane #Mantis #Master Viper #Master Monkey #Monkey #dreamworks #Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness - Forsaken and Furious #Forsaken and Furious #Hundun #Junjie

[dorothygale123]

So, there I was, minding my own business, when Pinterest decided to draw my attention to THESE:

I WANT THEM SO BAD. However, I have made the responsible, adult decision not to get them because I don't have any more space on my shelves need them. I don't. I don't need them, really.

REALLY.

But that cannot and will not stop me from gushing over the mythological creatures they feature, so here we are.

First up, this cutie.

A pretty easy one, as it's just a nine-tailed fox. Here it's labeled as Jiu Wei Hu, but it's also called the Huli Jing. Known in Japan as the kyuubi or youko and Korea as the gumiho, this little guy shows up all over East Asia. Honestly foxes could take up their own post several times over, so I'll leave it here for now.

Next up, the chonker!

Once again, this little guy has another name. Here called Di Jiang, I am far more familiar with him as Hundun, a primordial chaos god that has a lot to do with the founding of the universe. As you can see, he look a little.... wierd. For starters, he has no face. In fact one of his more famous myths has to do with exactly that. See, Hundun was just chilling in the center of the world when 2 gods started to visit him. They felt really bad for Hundun, not having a face and all, so they decided to 'help' him by carving holes into his flesh. The idea was that he would be able to see, hear, eat and breathe with them, but after the seventh hole Hundun died. Looks like cutting holes into people to reorganize their biology can have unforseen medical consequences, what a surprise.

Next!

Wen Yao was pretty hard to get any info on, but from what I can tell it was a carp with wings (possibly on the back of the model) and was an omen of good harvest, hence the rice.

Next.

When I first saw this one, I thought it might be a pair of fenghuang (Chinese pheonixes), as they also often come in male/female pairs, but it's actually a different creature entirely. The Man Man, also called the Jian Jian or Bi Yi Niao are a pair of birds that resemble pheasants, except they only have one eye and one wing each. They are very romantic figures, with the obvious symbolism of a person's partner completing them. Awwww.

Next.

This here is Xing Tian. I have a whole post on him and what his deal is, so feel free to check that out.

Continued in Part 2

#mythology sh*tposting #my mom said these were too geeky #no such thing #unfolding the classics series #chinese mythology #hundun #nine tailed fox #huli jing #kyuubi #gumiho #mythology #wen yao #man man #jian birds #bu yi niao #xing tian #mythological creature #pop mart #pop mart figures #lego monkie kid #journey to the west #lmk

[lostpeace]

1. Chac, Mayan god of rain and agriculture.

2. Kuk and Kauket, ancient Egyptian deities of primordial darkness. They were part of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis.

3. Hundun, creature representing unformed chaos from Chinese myth.

#demonology #angelology #mayan mythology #egyptian mythology #chinese mythology #chac #kuk #kauket #ogdoad #hundun #oc