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In Chinese myth, the Celestial Stag is a deer capable of human speech and understanding. It lived both in the heavens and in the underworld where it wandered in mines and caverns, offering to show lost miners where rich gems were if only they would help it to the surface. The surface of the Earth was not its proper place, however, and should the Celestial Stag set foot upon it, it would become an amorphous blob of diseased jelly.