Wangliang (revisited)

In Chinese folklore, a wangliang (Chinese: 魍魎 or 罔兩) is a type of malevolent spirit. Interpretations include a wilderness spirit, like the kui, a water spirit like the Chinese dragon, a fever demon like the yu (魊; "a poisonous three-legged turtle"), a graveyard ghost also called wangxiang (罔象) or fangliang (方良), and a man-eating "demon that resembles a 3-year-old brown child with red eyes, long ears, and beautiful hair."

Loosely inspired by the beginning of Prometheus, a 2012 science fiction horror film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott. As a spacecraft departs a planet, a humanoid alien drinks a black liquid, causing its body to dissolve. Its remains cascade into a waterfall and the alien's DNA falls apart and recombines into a new one.