There is a best-known legend handed down among the Tibetans in China. It goes like that: five beautiful goddesses killed the five-headed dragon that tried to destroy the serenity of the sea about which the Himalayan mountains exist now. The goddesses turned the sea into fertile land at the plea of the people and became the five main peaks forming the Himalayas in order to bless and protect the people forever. Thought this is not the true formation of the mountain chain, the attraction of the Himalayas is no less than that of the legend. …
