‘We wuz talkin’ and the monk got loose, and she sent me off to catch him.’

The city's most important Mazu temple was demolished to build it, but the original golden-faced Mazu deity was saved and now stands in Fucheng Temple in Sanjhih on the north coast (it's brought back to Taipei each year for Mazu's birthday.)

In the protomyth, for which the Latvian and Indie myths give evidence, the sun-maiden, which Helen strongly resembles, was married to the divine horsemen (v. (Robbins) Dexter [1980]: 21-22; Dexter [1984]: 138-142).

After John officially attained his majority, Robert bought him his first legal beer. This is a common American rite of passage.