1.   And, on the dining room mantel, large china figurines of the Eight Immortals stand guard, Chinese gods who do good deeds.

2.   A statue of a Chinese god of wealth adorns her living room.

3.   He constructed an altar to the Chinese god of war, brotherhood and honor, Guan Gong.

4.   He nodded at the small shrine of Guangong, a figure of a robed Chinese god, the symbol of justice.

5.   The faded green walls of her room are adorned with calendars of movie stars or Chinese gods that the restaurants and grocery stores in Chinatown give away.

6.   The serpent in the Garden of Eden is the Chinese god of evil, the serpent demon.

7.   Instead of Chinese gods, Suzman and Mhlope bring visitors from the land of the ancestors to earth in search of one good person.

8.   A symbolic dragon gateway was severely damaged and stone statues of ancient Chinese gods were flung to the ground.