Resumé af eventyret 'The Shining Mountain'

Summary of “The Shining Mountain”The Shining Mountain is a fairy tale about a Scottish girl called Pangma-La. Her father is a famous mountaineer, and he named her after the mountain. He wants her to be a mountaineer like himself, and to climb the shining mountain with him, so that she will be special. He teaches her how to climb, and after many years Pangma-La is finally ready to climb the mountain.While they travel to the mountain with a white plane, Pangma-La is having a nightmare about disappointing her father, which is her biggest fear. When they arrive to the village near the mountain, there Sherpa men are offering to carry their loads. Pangma-La’s dad makes the Sherpa men very angry. The Sherpa men are telling him about the mountain goddess, who will provide him from climbing to the top of the mountain.On the first day they were climbing, a Sherpa woman appears and offers to help Pangma-La by carrying her heavy sack, but she says no. On the second day the Sherpa woman appears again, and offers to take the heavy things from Pangma-La’s sack, and fill it up with swan’s down instead. Pangma-La says yes, but only because the Sherpa woman promises, that her father will not find out. On the third day the Sherpa woman appears again, and she covers Pangma-La with swan’s feathers instead of her heavy clothes. On the fourth day, the Sherpa woman appears again, and she takes Pangma-La’s heavy heart and fills her with swan’s downs instead.At the fifth day Pangma-La is gone. This time the Sherpa woman appears to the father, with Pangma-La, who now is a swan, beside her. The father becomes very mad, and when he tries to strike her down, she turns into the mountain goddess. She explains to him that his daughter is turned into a swan, because she could not carry the burden he has put on her.He gets his heart’s desire, but when he realizes that his own daughter has given her life away to please him, he tries to cast himself off the cliff, but the goddess stops him. She makes him feel the weight of his heavy burden and his heavy heart, so that he can understand the pain he has caused. He learns his lesson and Pangma-La is turned back to a human again. The burden is lifted off her shoulders, and they run all the way to the bottom of the Shining Mountain together.