This week on Myths and Legends, we're wrapping up our most recent monkey king episodes with some contradictions,

an apologetic dragon, a murderous monk, and an ogre, who loves tea parties with his friends.

The creature this week is a house-sized bundle of rage and pointy things, who was taken down by a gofer.

This is Myths and Legends, episode 193B, Pilgrims Progress.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.

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

others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen.

Previously on the podcast, Zhuanzong was a blaneless monk, and he was sent on a quest to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures

from the Thunder Clack Temple in the West, in India, to save the world.

To help him on his journey, the heavens freed Sun Wukong, the monkey king,

after 500 years of imprisonment to be his attendant and servant,

aiding him on this dangerous journey.

No more than three days after meeting up with Sun Wukong, the pair split up.

When the monkey king killed six bandits on the road, an action that the Buddhist monk, Zhuanzong, had a problem with.

So, Sun Wukong left him, alone on the road to the West.

But he's all like, don't be violent.

Come on, that's my thing.

Sun Wukong said, as he sipped tea in the palace of the dragon king of the Eastern Sea.

It was hundreds of miles away.

So, of course, he made it in like three jumps.

Yeah, and he's a monk.

Nonviolence is kind of their thing, the dragon king said.

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