317-Monkey King: Make it Rain

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We're back in the story of the Monkey King, and monkey finds a noble new calling: freeing enslaved monks. Does this noble calling include the ignoble murdering of his enemies and/or tricking them into drinking his urine? Yes. Yes it does.

The creature is the Stcemqestcint, the stinky naked man watching you in the forest.

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I can't remember if I've mentioned this, but a PHENOMENAL source of the complete Monkey King story (Journey to the West) is this book translated by Anthony Yu: https://myths.link/journey

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Music:

"American Crow" by Chad Crouch
"Delmendra" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Black Cosmos Ring" by Chad Crouch
"Fuscia" by Chad Crouch
"Negentrophy" by Chad Crouch
"Operatives" by Chad Crouch

Transcript

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0:00.0	Quick disclaimer, some stronger than usual violence this week with some beheadings and
0:03.9	eviscerations of nothing too graphic but it's there.
0:07.4	This week, on Myths and Legends, we're back in the stories of the Monkey King, and we'll
0:11.2	see that if you challenge someone to a, let's cut off our own head's competition, it's
0:16.0	maybe a good idea to make sure the other person goes first.
0:19.1	The creature this week is that stinky naked man, following you around in the forest, and
0:23.7	how you can turn him into a tree forever.
0:31.0	This is Myths and Legends, episode 317.
0:35.0	Make it rain.
0:41.0	This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:44.9	Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:49.2	Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listen.
0:53.0	Previously on the story of the Monkey King, we had Shuan Zeng, a monk in medieval China,
0:57.7	being given the task of retrieving scriptures from a temple in the west.
1:01.6	And to aid him on that dangerous journey, he was given four monsters.
1:06.4	Beans who were immortals but who fell from grace and were trying to earn their way back
1:09.5	into the heavens.
1:10.7	There was an indigo sandman named Sandy, an anthropomorphic pig named Pigsie, a dragon
1:16.7	who pretty much never leaves the form of their horse, and the most famous was the Monkey King,
1:21.6	a super-powered, nearly immortal monkey.
1:24.6	But I say nearly immortal because we catch up to Monkey at the time of his execution,
1:29.4	as he kneels down on the headspin block, ready to be beheaded.
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