Show Notes
Master Steenrod explores the ancient myth of the Fusang tree, the ten suns, and the three-legged Sun Crow. This episode examines the symbolic meaning of the sun within Taoism, the relationship between yin and yang, the warning against excess energy, and the evolution of one of East Asia’s oldest cosmological myths into Taoist philosophy and esoteric tradition.
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