Rama, aided by his brother Lakshmana, the monkey god Hanuman, and a vast vanara (monkey) army led by Sugriva, built a bridge to Lanka and besieged Ravana's fortress.
It sometimes happens that oneor the otherof the black slaves eitherimagines truthfully, or out ofrascality pretends to haveseen andheard an apparition or ghost which they call waíer mama, which ghost would have ordered themnot to work on such or such a day,but to spend it as a holy day for offering with the blood of a white hen, to sprinkle this or that at the water-side and moreof that monkey-business, adding in such cases that if they do not obey this order,shortly Watermama will make their child or husband etc.
Interventionists: Some beings, like the Monkey King (Sun Wukong) in Journey to the West, sought to challenge the gods or help humanity through direct action.
Animal and Human Roles: Many stories feature animals that embody human virtues or flaws, such as a wise elephant, a clever monkey, or a loyal deer.
The Monkey King (Mahakapi Jataka): A story about a monkey king (a past life of the Buddha) who sacrifices himself to save his troop from danger, teaching selflessness and leadership.
Africa possibly had a monkey-like negro race.
Men put their milk stick behind them and were turned into monkeys.
Tibet:Tibet was almost totally inundated, until the god Gya took compassion on the survivors, drew off the waters through Bengal, and sent teachers to civilize the people, who until then had been little better than monkeys.
He spied and found a monkey was responsible.
The monkey told him that God didn't want him to work because a flood was coming, and it gave him instructions for building a coffinlike craft.
The man built the box and got into it, and when the flood came, the monkey rode atop it.
But the Almighty, irritated with him for building the fire, appeared and turned him into a monkey.
Nahua (central Mexico):People in three previous ages were destroyed by being devoured by jaguars, swept away by the wind and turned into monkeys, and transformed into birds in a rain of fire.
Tlaxcalan (central Mexico):Men who survived the deluge were turned into monkeys, but they slowly recovered speech and reason.
Other giants hid in the forests and became monkeys.
God told Saint Michael the Archangel to go down, and Saint Michael reversed the man's face and hind parts and turned him into a monkey.
Ahau became angry with them and, reversing their faces and hind parts, turned them to monkeys.
The man was turned into a monkey.
When the waters were subsiding, the younger brother fell out of the ark, landed in a tree, and turned into a monkey.
Today's monkeys are a sign of these people, mere manikins.
He turned the people upside down, and they became monkeys.
He turned the man into a buzzard and his children into monkeys.
This they did, but Iwarrika, the monkey, didn't help, so Sigu sent him to fetch water with an open-work basket.
The red howler monkey cried in anguish so much at the cold and hunger that his throat swelled and remains so to this day.
Monkeys are as curious as ever but are now afraid of water.
A few of these people survived as humans, but Kuma turned the ones that ate leaves and rotten fruit into howler monkeys.
At that time a tree called the Pullao formed an arch between the Llantapa and Vichoca mountains; in it lived monkeys, toucans, and other birds.
When the flood subsided, the Coroados descended, except for the ones which had climbed into trees, who became monkeys.
Depiction: Hanuman is depicted as a monkey-faced god with a strong, muscular body.
This explains the frequent occurrence in the Cakchiquel Annals of such strange appellatives as Belehe Queh, nine deer; Cay Batz, two monkey, etc.; these being, in fact, the days of the year on which the bearers were born.
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, gains access to the heavenly peach orchard and, being mischievous, eats many of the peaches, thereby gaining immense power and longevity.
Beasts that were like little monkeys that jumped around on trees developed technology, colonized other planets in the solar system, and built huge cities on planets (even though they disappeared into history without a trace), and your genes still remain in the beasts.
10 million years ago, small monkeys came down from the trees and began to live on land.
(They were just afraid of our technology and flying vehicles) =27>First, they took about 10,000 or 20,000 of your monkey-like ancestors and left Earth for hundreds of years.