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Tales of the Gods
The mountain began to sink, because there was nothing under it. Someone had to go down and stay there.
Nobody in the story ever sees him.
That is the thing worth holding on to about the second descent, because everything else about the churning of the ocean is show. There is a mountain used as a stick. There is the king of snakes stretched out as a rope, with gods on one end and asuras on the other. There is a poison, and a physician, and a woman rising on a lotus, and a pot of nectar.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.