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The 108 Stars of Destiny are at the core of the plot of the Chinese classical novel ''Shui Hu Zhuan'', which was written by Shi Nai'an in the 14th century and is commonly translated as ''Water Margin'', ''Outlaws of the Marsh'', or ''All Men Are Brothers''. ''Suikoden'', the Japanese translation of ''Shui Hu Zhuan'', has been made into a series of role-playing video games. Based on the Taoist concept that each person's destiny is tied to a Star of Destiny (), the 108 Stars of Destiny represent 108 demonic overlords who were banished by Shangdi, a supreme god in Chinese folk religion. Having repented since their banishment, the stars are released from imprisonment by accident, and are reborn in the world as 108 heroes who band together for the cause of justice. The 108 Stars of Destiny are divided into two groups: the 36 Heavenly Spirits and the 72 Earthly Fiends. Other titles for the Stars of Destiny include ''108 Stars of Heavenly Earth'' and ''108 Stars of Heaven and Earth''. ==Appearances and mentions in other stories== One Heavenly Spirit, Lu Zhishen, is represented in a folktale as a sworn brother of Zhou Tong.〔Hsia, C.T. C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature. Columbia University Press, 2004 (ISBN 0231129904), pp. 448-449, footnote #31〕 According to ''The Oral Traditions of Yangzhou Storytelling'', several popular folktales about Wu Song, a Heavenly Spirit, from the "Wang School" of Yangzhou storytelling, state that he killed the tiger "in the middle of the tenth month" of the "Xuanhe year ()" (the emphasis belongs to the original author).〔Børdahl, Vibeke. ''The Oral Traditions of Yangzhou Storytelling.'' Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996 (ISBN 0-7007-0436-1)〕 In ''Iron Arm, Golden Saber'', Sun Li, an Earthly Fiend, is portrayed as a fellow student of Zhou Tong and Luan Tingyu.〔Wang, Yun Heng (汪运衡) and Xiao Yun Long (筱云龙). ''Tie Bei Jin Dao Zhou Tong Zhuan'' (铁臂金刀周侗传 - "Iron Arm, Golden Sabre: The Biography of Zhou Tong"). Hangzhou: Zhejiang People's Publishing House, 1986 (UBSN --- Union Books and Serials Number) CN (10103.414) and 464574〕 In Louis Cha's ''wuxia'' novel ''The Legend of the Condor Heroes'', Guo Sheng, an Earthly Fiend, is said to be the ancestor of the protagonist, Guo Jing.〔 Cha, Louis. ''The Legend of the Condor Heroes'', Chapter 1. ''Hong Kong Commercial Daily'', 1957.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「108 Stars of Destiny」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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