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Legends of dolgozhitelyah

Habitats on the stars Big Bear goddess Dow mu ( «Mother Bucket») was responsible life and death. Dow th prayed, asking for protection from premature death and serious diseases. Her husband was Dow-fu ( «Batyushka bucket») and nine star-sons, appears in human guise. Two of them – Beydou and Nandou – regarded as deities of Northern and Southern buckets. One in white knew death, the other in red – births. It was believed that after the birth of millions of people who knew Nandou, they fall into the hands of fate Beydou. Once a Yan, who gadatel predicted that his son will die at the age of nineteen years old, went to look Beydou, taking the wine and deer meat. On the way he met two people who were playing checkers under the mulberry tree. Yan silently put their wine and meat. Enthused the players – they were Beydou and Nandou – took to drink and eat and not be immediately noticed Yan. Beydou agreed to repay it, and changed the figures in the book of fate: for nineteen years old son, Yan was destined to live a whole ninety.
One of the most famous was the long-Peng tszu ( «elder Peng»). His mother was pregnant three years and could not razroditsya. It had to do with a knife-cut under the left armpit. Thus were born three sons, and when exposed to the right side – there were three more, and Peng-tszu was one of those children. According to legend, he lived for over 800 years. Tell that when the Pan-tszu already seven hundred sixty-seven years, it does not look old and frail. Nobles and ordinary people trying to find out what it owes its longevity fantastic, but the Pan-tszu not issued a secret even to the emperor, and they built all kinds of speculation. Some thought that he took medicine from the fungus korichnogo tree, while others see the secret of his longevity in the ability to breathe deeply. Finally established a legend that the Pan-tszu once taught High heavenly Lord incredibly tasty soup pheasants and has been rewarded with extraordinary longevity. According to another tradition, a sort of virgin-Cai nyuy vysprosila with the old secret of longevity, and referred it to the emperor. He took advantage of them, but then gave the order to execute all those who would disseminate the teachings of Pan-tszu. Upon learning of this, old man left the country in an unknown direction. But after 70 years of his allegedly seen in the far west.

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