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Dragon Myths - The Dragon with eight heads and eight tails - Part 2
Susanoo built a huge fence across
the dragon's probable coursee and cut eights openings in the fence. Near every
opening Susanoo placed a large barrel of rice wine distilled eight times and on
a nearby hill Susanoo built a wooden likeness of the girl. Then, he waited for
the dragon.
On the appointed day the dragon
came, filling the sky with thunder and making the earth tremble, coloring the
day red with light from it eyes. Its scales reflected the sun and its talons dug
holes in the ground. The noise from its snapping jaws was
enormous.
But then the dragon saw the girl's
image and thrust its heads through the openings in Susanoo's fence. The dragon
then saw the girl's reflection in the wine barrels, swallowed them and the
strong wine made it fall asleep and close its awful eyes.
Susanoo took advantage of the great
dragon's slumber and killed it, using sharp axes to chop it into little pieces,
replacing the axes when their metal blades became blunt after hacking through
the iron hard scales. The dragon's poisonous blood turned the land black and
killed vegetation and animals for miles.
Susanoo found trouble hacking one
of the dragon's tails. There was something inside. It was the grass-cutter
blade, the sword the Sun Goddess made, one of the most important of Japan's
artifacts.
But all who deal with dragons must
know that dealing with dragons is tricky business. Fantasy and science fiction stories always make a point of this. After the land of the rising
sun crowned its eighth emperor, the great dragon with eight heads and eight
tails was reborn. It slithered into the Emperor's palace and stole the
grass-cutter sword, taking it to the deepest sea, to its king, Naga, the king of
dragons. No man had seen that dragon with eight heads and eight tails or the
sword again.
Japan was thus robbed of its one of its
greatest artifacts.
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