This week on myths and legends, we're back in the journey to the west with Sun Wuh Kong, the Monkey King.

We'll learn how to defeat an army of 48,000 with a math lesson,

and how that vase in your house might just turn your enemies to goo.

The creature this time is the spider who was too awesome and unkillable

and that was what got it killed. This is myths and legends episode 382. A good Death. This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.

Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know but with surprising origins

and that there's our tales that might be new to you but are definitely worth a listen.

We're back in the story of the Monkey King, Sun Wuhong, and the story of the Journey to the West, we follow Schwann Zong, the human monk, who is tasked with retrieving holy scriptures from the Thunderclap Temple in the West.

Since the road is impossibly long and dangerous, he was granted four guards, essentially monsters

on a redemption arc for his trip.

There was Sun Wuh Kong, the Monkey King, a superpower monkey who turned against heaven in nearly one hundreds of years prior, there's

also Piggsi, a stinky appetite-driven pigman who fights with a rake, and Sandy, a dower

indigo sand monster man. There's also their horse, Indigo, Sand Monster Man.

There's also their horse, which is actually a dragon,

but who almost never leaves the form of a horse.

Today, we'll catch up with the party still traveling west,

or trying to, if strange elderly men on the road

would stop shrieking at them. Oh great elder going west you must turn back turn back now pull back on your

horses reins before you in the mountains three demons lurk who have devoured all

the mortals in the world.

The man standing on a mountain cliff, with this flowing beard dancing in the breeze and hand holding

the dragon staff aloft, cried,

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