This week on myths and legends, we're back in the stories of the monkey king and the journey to the west,

where we'll see that if your road ahead is literally just fire, that might be a bad thing

and make your journey more difficult.

Also, that Piggsi eventually crosses the threshold dividing Stinky and Bacon,

but you have to be able to handle Stinky long enough to get to Bacon.

The creature this week is the CD.

It will eat your friends.

This is myths and legends episode 358.

Winded. Myths and Legends, episode 358.

Winded.

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.

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

In the story of the Journey to the West we follow Schwannzong, the human monk, who was tasked by the heavens

with retrieving the 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.

There was Sun Woo Kong, the Monkey King, a super-powered monkey who turned against heaven in nearly one hundreds of years prior

there's also pigsy a stinky appetite-driven pig man and Sandy a dower indigo

sandman also their horse which is actually a dragon, but who almost never leaves the form of a horse.

We'll catch up to them on the road, actually managing to have an easy journey for once.

Good for them.

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