Yamato and the Golden Apple

Yamato had infiltrated the bandits castle, disguised himself as a girl, and killed the bandit. Now finally he could rescue his princess that the bandit had kidnapped. He searched every room in the castle until he found his beloved princess, at last he would have her back in his arms. But this didn’t go quite as well as Yamato had hoped. As he opened the door and peered into the last room in the castle, he saw not his beautiful princess, but an ogre. Yamato reacted much like Lord Farquadd did when he found out Fiona was an ogre, and was absolutely shocked and disgusted. The bandit and his minions knew they would eventually be overcome by the great hero Yamato and so to make his life a little more difficult they turned the princess into an ogre.

Yamato had no idea what to do, he has made a vow to the princess that he would marry her, and warriors can’t break their vows. So unfortunately Yamato had to go through with the wedding and marry the ogre princess. Yamato reached out to every sorceress, doctor, and preacher that he could to try to find a cure for the princess, but nothing seemed to work. So Yamato was stuck in this marriage with the princess. On top of the spell turning the princess into an ogre, it also made her extremely naggy and clingy. Yamato couldn’t stand this, and would find any excuse that he could to get away from the princess. This included yard work, quests, and random adventures.

On this particular adventure Yamato found himself sailing to a nearby island for the day to get away from his irritating wife. Yamato arrived at island and docked his boat, then went to skip rocks along the beach as he had done many times before to relax him. But today Yamato didn’t feel like skipping rocks, instead he sat down and prayed to whatever god or goddess that could hear him, that his wife would be rid of this awful curse and be turned back to normal.

Just as he finished his prayer, the great goddess Sharkisha appeared. Sharkisha told Yamato that if he could retrieve one of the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides then she would cure his wife. Yamato knew that this task would be very dangerous because the tree that the golden apples laid upon was guarded by the evil dragon, Ladon. Knowing the great risks that came with this dangerous task, Yamato accepted.

Yamato knew that his task was going to be a challenge, but that it wasn’t impossible. Many years ago that the famous Greek hero Hercules had stolen a golden apple from the tree and lived to tell the tale. Now he was no where near as strong and mighty as Hercules, so he would need to figure out another way to get past the beast. It took Yamato almost a full day of searching through Wikipedia, but by the end of it he had found what he was looking for. He then set his sails for the island of the Garden of the Hesperides.

 

Ladon the Dragon

Yamato arrived at the island and entered the dreaded garden. The garden was massive so it took Yamato awhile to find the apple tree, but at last he saw it and wrapped around the tree was Ladon. As him approached the enormous tree Ladon arose and stood ready to attack the hero. This is where Yamato’s plan comes into action. Yamato continued to approach the tree and as he did he whipped out a flute from his bag and began to play. This caught the great beast off guard and he started to lower his guard and sway with the music. And within minutes Ladon was out cold, much like Fluffy in the Harry Potter. Yamato then skipped over to the tree grabbed an apple and continued to play until he was safely aboard his ship.

Yamato arrived back at the island and Sharkisha appeared to him and he gave her the golden apple that he had promised her. And with a snap of her finger she turned the princess back into how she was before. Yamato and her continued living together in harmony for the remainder of their years.

Authors notes: I took the original story of Yamato and the golden apple and added my own twist on it to where it related to the labor that Hercules had to perform. The story also talked about how Yamato longed to be away from his wife all the time so I thought that was a good tie in into the golden apple story.

Source: Japanese Mythology

Reading Notes B: Japanese Mythology

Change the princess character into a pop culture reference along with Yamato. He gets tired of her because she is too naggy and clingy, so he longs for the siren (use different person/thing). Have Yamato team up with Hercules to get the golden apple and do some of the labors. Have him fight Smaug the dragon/grindles mother from Beowulf.



Smaug the Dragon

Japanese Mythology- Reading Notes A

Compare the hero Yamato to Hercules, make references to this but change up some of the details. Change up some of the labors that he must face and overcome. Add the Serpent of Koshi story to it, compare it to the Lernaen Hydra.

Hercules

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I have had a regular template on my blog until now and so i thought i would make it look a little better. And I added the new OU football stadium as the background just to make it a little more custom.

The Evil eye of Jimmy Fallon

There once were two gods, Kevin Hart and Jimmy Fallon. Kevin was the god of good luck and Jimmy the god of bad luck. They were both very important comedic gods and they competed over everything.  They would argue over things like who was better looking, who was better with the ladies, who was more powerful, and even who could cook better. You name it, they have probably argued about it. But today they got into it worse than usual, they started arguing about who was the funnier god. The argument spanned for days, with all the other gods picking one side or the other.

Jimmy and Kevin decided that the argument had gone on long enough, and that they needed to bring in a mediator to decide who was the more respected and loved god. They knew they would have to be careful about who they brought in as their mediator, they decided it had to be someone equally as funny as them, famous, and someone with a fantastic voice. So naturally they selected Hollywood’s own Robin Williams. 

Robin was very honored and very nervous to be selected as the gods mediator, he feared that if he chose wrong his life would be a series of unfortunate events for the remainder of his days. Robin thought long and hard about who the funnier god really was, and after a week he finally came to a decision. 

"Pick a number between 1 and 10," said Robin to the gods. 

"What?" said both the gods in unison. 

"You heard me, I can't decide whose funnier so were you two are going to pick a number between 1 and 10 and whoever is closest to my number wins." said Robin. Robin decided this was the only way that he would not be spited by one of the gods, man was he wrong.

"Three," said Kevin

"Eight," said Jimmy

"The number I picked was 5, so Kevin you're the funnier god," said Robin hesitantly.

Kevin obviously was extremely happy, but Jimmy was pissed. He decided that even though the decision was fair that he was going to curse Robin for not selecting him in the first place.

The eye of Jimmy Fallon was now cast on Robin Williams.

Robin returned to his home in Chicago, where he found his wife and children very sick with some incurable disease. Robin knew this was the work of Jimmy. Days later his wife and children passed away and Robin pleaded to Kevin Hart to bring his family back and save him from the wrath of Jimmy. Kevin told Robin that he could not reverse what the god had done, but that if he made it the sanctuary on Alcatraz Island, that the curse would be lifted. That’s when Robin knew he must make it to Alcatraz to save himself from this terrible curse.

This was much easier said than done. First, Robin decided he would fly to California, but every flight to California was booked. He then decided he could just drive there, but every vehicle he got into wouldn't start, even the greyhound bus. "Ill take the train," he decided, but every train he even got near broke down. Robin knew that his journey was going to be long and difficult, but the only way he was going to get there was by walking. 

So he started the 2,130-mile journey to the very ironic sanctuary of Alcatraz Island.

On his journey Robin Williams faced many terrible and challenging tasks.

First he had to get unstuck from the lamp, and help young Aladdin defeat Jafar and escape poverty.

Next, he had to help Ben Stiller control and wrangle up all the exhibits of the Natural History Museum.

Then, he had to act as cross dressing nanny in the movie “Mrs. Doubtfire.’’

Finally, he had to live in and escape the wicked board game prison of Jumanji.

After he finished all these tasks he was finally able to get to Alcatraz. But when he was just about to step foot on the island, Jimmy Fallon appeared and would not let him pass.

“You may have completed all the tasks, but you still have one last one. You must make me laugh,” said Jimmy.

A moment hadn’t even passed when Robin whispered but one word into Jimmy’s ear, and the god just paused for a second and fell over in laughter.

When Jimmy finally got ahold of himself, he revoked the curse he had set on Robin and even brought back Robin’s family.

To this day no one knows what single word Robin Williams whispered in Jimmy Fallon’s ear, but all we do know is that the curse was lifted and Robin was free at last.

Authors Notes: I really enjoyed the original "Evil Eye of Sani story so I just decided to change up the characters and the tasks that the protagonist had to go through to get rid of Sanis curse.

Source: Evil Eye of Sani from Bengali stories. 

Robin Williams