Nezha
In the Taoism, No-Tcha or Nézhā 哪吒 (Japanese: Nataku or Nata), still called San Taizi 三太子 (third prince), is the third wire and the assistant of Li Jing, general of the Dynastie Tang déifié and chief of the celestial army charged to put at the reason the malfaisants spirits which thwart the divine wills and torment the men; No-Tcha orders to him even a section of the army.
It with the aspect and the capricious temperament of a child. He moves in the airs thanks to two wheels of fire placed under his feet, carries in shoulder-belt the cosmic ring with which he killed the son of the king dragon and holds in hand a lance. He can be made push additional heads and members. Some proposed that its figure takes as a starting point the god vedic Nalakuvara.
Its legend is evoked in the Nomination of the gods . It was born after three years from pregnancy in the form from a ball from flesh which his/her father, furious, split of his sword. No-Tcha emerges then from the interior of the ball very armed. It makes also an appearance in the Voyage in Occident .
In the temples taoists, it often appears with a face unpleasing, covered of an ancient armor and armed with a lance.
Young personality and rebel, No-Tcha was one of the rare gods to preserve a certain official favor as a popular cultural figure in China during the Sixties and Seventies. It became hero of cartoons there, like Prince Nezha triumphs over the King Dragon (Nezha naohai - 哪吒闹海), 63 minutes feature-length film realized in 1979. In the universe of the Manga S Japanese, it inspired a character of Gensômaden Saiyuki, friend of His Goku.
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