Mythology and Folklore

        There was once a magical rock in the land of Wynnewood, where a tiger was born of stone.  He had magical powers that sprang from that rock which shone all the way to the heavens. The tiger grew up and met other tigers in Wynnewood, until one day they stumbled upon a waterfall. The tigers agreed that whoever could cross the waterfall without being injured would be the Tiger King. The stone tiger volunteered himself, and on the other side of that waterfall, he found a cave where everything was made of stone. The other tigers named him the Tiger King and he ruled the land of Wynnewood.     One day, the tigers were sitting at the dinner table when the Tiger King began to weep because he feared death. All the tigers began to cry, as they feared death too. An old tiger spoke up, "You may seek immortality from the Gods and live forever among them."       The Tiger King decided at that moment that he would leave Wynnewood to se...

 the dragon king and the princes of the dead sat before the lord of the heavens and presented their complaints about sun wu kung  the lord of the heavens ordered a god to take him prisoner  the god said that he was born of pure powers and that the king should issue an order for him to come and be forgiven of his sins, and if he doesn't, he would be punished with no mercy the god descended and gave him his order, so sun wu kung obliged and mounted a cloud to heaven sun wu kung was moving so fast that the god was left behind, but caught up and let him into the heavenly gates he did not show respect to the lord so everyone wanted him to be punished, but the lord excused him  the lord appointed him to be the stablemaster of the heavenly steeds, so he attended his duties with zeal sun wu kung asked what his position was ranked, and his friend told him it was not  he grew angry and beat out of heaven with his iron rod and went home  he was given an imperial robe ...

on a place called the moutains of flowers and fruits, there was a rock that held all the power of the earth out of this rock came a stone egg that birthed a stone ape, which had golden streams from his eyes that reached heaven  the lord of the heavens was frightened and sent out two gods to find out what happened, who reassured him that it was just from the magic rock  the ape grew up and played with other apes in the valley, until one day they came across a waterfall they said whoever could go through the waterfall without injury would be king, so the stone ape tried he found an iron bridge with a tablet that stated that they had found the heavenly cave, they all went there and everything was made of stone, and the stone ape was named king  300 years passed, and one day the king of the apes was sitting with his friends when he began to weep at the fear of death  the old ape told him that buddhas are exempt from death, and the king of the apes said that he would go t...