In one of the Jataka tales, one of these animals attempts to sacrifice itself to feed the daeva lord Śakra. One of these creatures deceived a group of sharks into acting as a land bridge before the sharks bite him. A temple to a god in the form of this animal in Taiwan conducts gay marriages, because that god, Tù’ér Shén (“TOO-arr SHUN”), is a god of homosexuality. In the Kojiki, a flayed one of these creatures from Inaba is advised to roll in cattail pollen by Ōkuni-nushi. This animal lies between the tiger and dragon in the Chinese Zodiac. One or more of these creatures uses a mortar to pound the ingredients of the elixir of immortality for the goddess Cháng’é (“chong-UH”). For 10 points, in several East Asian mythologies, a “Jade” type of what creature lives on the moon? ■END■
ANSWER: rabbit [or hare or bunny or lagomorph or equivalents; accept jade rabbit]
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