The bodhisattva was so overwhelmed by the suffering in the universe that the deity’s head split into eleven pieces.
Myth
The ancient Greeks believed dreams enter our sleeping minds like bats to deliver messages from the gods.
They Enter Our Minds Like Bats
Some Americans like to tie a pair of shoes together and toss them at a power line.
Dangling Shoes
Sometimes I find comfort in a two-thousand-year-old myth about a Chinese emperor.