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67 _ Places Mt. Maisan and Towers Near Jeonju in Jeollabuk-do Province you may come across a strange sight, a mountain that separates in mid-air. Locals will tell you that the slightly taller half of "the Horse Ear Mountain (Mt. Maisan)" is the husband, the smaller the wife. Legend has it that two mountain spirits ascending to heaven had to make their climb before dawn to avoid being seen by humans. Up they scurried until the wife felt a prickly sensation. A diligent housewife who had come out to draw some water spied them, and the wife told her husband to stop, but he ignored her and climbed even faster. As punishment for being seen, they were frozen into rock right at the moment he turned his back on her in annoyance. Mt. Maisan is also famous for a series of stone towers or pagodas which were built singlehandedly by an eccentric hermit named Yi Gapryong some 100 years ago. These more than 80 towers are engineering marvels. Working only at night for more than ten years, Yi would place natural stones layer upon layer, without the use of any mechanical tool or mortar. The tallest ones stand over 10 meters high, but they are in no danger of falling despite the absence of mortar. They have withstood the ravages of time for more than a century, even of typhoons which have
68 _ HELLO from KOREA Stone towers on Mt. Maisan uprooted huge trees. How did he do it and why? To his daughter-in-law's query he replied that he did not do them alone; a heavenly spirit descended to Earth every night and helped him with its mighty strength. The pagodas were intended for the salvation of all mankind. To strengthen their spirit, he brought stones from celebrated mountains and rivers from all over the country and included some in each tower. While he worked on these pagodas, he lived on a diet of only pine needles, and he also wrote a Sacred Book before he died at the ripe old age of 98. Unfortunately, no one has yet been able to figure out the mysterious script he wrote in it.
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