Monkey
Impudence; inquisitiveness; mischief; the
baser instincts. Buddhist: One of the Three Senseless Creatures, always greedy and
grasping. Chinese: Ugliness; trickery; the power of transformation;
apotropaic. Christian: Vanity; luxury; the Devil. Hindu: Attribute of the monkey god Hanuman, possessed of divine
power, son of Vayu, a wind god. From:
An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional
Symbols (J.C. Cooper)
(The number seven) is also attributed to Satan who tries to copy God, being the monkey of God.