Love this story. I have to ask though, are there multiple versions? I read this before, and while I might be remembering wrong, I swear the version that I read didn't have the human-god girl that Nanami competes with (but it had all those same scenes of proving herself with the monkey) and the monkey didn't talk...just tons of little things that I swear are different.
Edit- And I just read the scene with the little dragon from the Zodiac calendar, and I know in the original version that I read it was a cute gigantic sheep that had to be sheared, not a little dragon. So if anyone knows what the different versions are called and how they came to be, I'd love to hear it ! =)