Lan-yein and A-mong In Burmese mythology, a brother and sister who possessed a magic drum. The two were happy for a while until one day Lan-yein, beating the magic drum, got a porcupine and served it for dinner. A-mong was wounded by the quills and believed her brother had intended to kill her. In revenge she destroyed the magic drum. She left for a village, where she married one of the local men. Lan-yein traveled to China, where he became “very powerful and very famous, and in the course of time was chosen Udibwa, or emperor of China.”
SOURCE:
Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition – Written by Anthony S. Mercatante & James R. Dow
Copyright © 2009 by Anthony S. Mercatante
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