Stories of clever rebels who defy authority and fall: the Monkey King Sun Wukong's rebellion against Heaven and Samson and Delilah. A myth belongs here when its cited article describes a trickster or rebel who challenges heaven or a ruler and is brought low. It excludes the trickster cycles of Africa, the Americas and Polynesia. Examples in the atlas include Sun Wukong's Rebellion Against Heaven and Samson and Delilah.
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