SAINT SEIYA :

Életkor: 20 év
Magasság: 182 cm
Súly: 68 kg
Születési idő: szept. 19.
Horoszkóp: Szűz
Vércsoport: AB
Születésihely: India
Technika: The Treasures of Heavens, Demon Pacifier, Transmigration to the Six Paths, Heaven Supremacy on evil spirits of rivers and mountains
Debütálás: 41.rész 

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Although Gemini Saga and Leo Aiolia were the first Gold Saints introduced by Masami Kurumada in his manga, Virgo Shaka was the first one he showed fully revealing his status as Gold Saint and wearing his Gold Cloth, in the chapter 18, contained in vol. 5.

Shaka is one of the Twelve Gold Saints. As the guardian of the Temple of Virgo along the path of Sanctuary, Shaka has played a pivotal role chiefly in the battle between Athena and the Pope in the Sanctuary arc, and also in the Hades arc. He is referred to many times on the story as the "the man who is closest to god" (or closest to attain godhood) due to his immense power and is also considered the only Gold Saint that has full control over the Araya Shiki (8th sense).

Shaka alone of all saints occupies the rarefied spot between God and man, but living between two worlds has its blessings as well as curses. Being the Reincarnation of Buddha* and endowed with the most powerful cosmos of all the saints even overpowering Libra Dohko's and Aries Shion's Cosmos, Shaka well deserves his reputation as the man closest to God. Even as a child in India, Shaka was precocious and communed with God himself--a scene recounted in the flashbacks moments before Shaka's death in the Twin Sala's Garden. For someone whose life has just begun, he had been unusually sensitive to sufferings and mortality of human life. Seeing pain and death as reflected in the Ganges gives the boy Shaka enough despair, if not a crisis of faith. With esoteric learning and training, Shaka eventually became powerful enough to don the Gold Cloth of Virgo, which he wore even as a boy in the manga, and wise enough to rise above human passions and attachments. For most of his life, he would look on human feelings with a mix of pity and compassion without being bound to them, with charity but not always with love. Detachment seems to be Shaka's answer to the poignant questions raised by human life, and he is seeing humanity from the point of God rather than living the experience. He would be disabused of this attitude in his encounter with Ikki. In the end, Shaka would have to remember that he is a man, as well, and return to whence he came.

• As in the Hindu tradition sometimes Budha is called the incarnation of the god Vishnu, in some translations of the history, Shaka is considered the reincarnation of Vishnu himself. In this case, he can be compared to Saori, it means, he is called an Avatar too, having the same level of power. This also may be the explanation to the need of three Gold Saint evoke the "Athena's Exclamation", a power with the same level of the Big Bang, to defeat him. After receiving this destructive power, it seems he is still alive but it is only his spirit.