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Just a mirror
In a glacier, there was a
cave, inside, a rock wall polished by the ice and on it a layer of clear,
frozen water, a mirror of best quality. When the first monkeys discovered
their portrait in the ice, they didn’t recognize themselves and thought that
this had to be a kind of god.
But not everybody amongst
the monkeys was superstitious, there was an inquisitive one who examined the
phenomena a bit closer and found out that the background in the ice resembled
to the other side of the cave. Then, he moved his hands, looked at them in
the ice and discovered that they were just the same. He went to the other
side of the cave and came closer again. Now, he was sure, it was him there in
the ice.
Knowledge is power and he
was ambitious enough to use his advantage.
Another monkey came into
the cave and the clever one hid in a corner and began to talk in an altered
voice. The other monkey thought that a god was before him and talking to him.
When the clever monkey
spoke to the other monkeys in the cave pretending to be the voice of god, he
ordered them to always come in one by one in order to prevent them
recognizing each other in the mirror and nobody ever discovered that the
godly voice was his. This went on for a long time and sometimes he used his
power for the good of his people but on other occasions, he used it for his
own aims.
There was a young and
beautiful female, who was in love with another young male. The monkey
pretending to be the voice of god as well wanted to marry her, so he told the
couple that they couldn’t get married and that the female had to get married
to another male. Of course, the couple was shocked. But what could they do?
The female monkey was
suspicious when she heard the name of the male monkey she had to marry. She
observed that this monkey was never present when the crowed waited in front
of the cave to hear the word of god. Therefore, she began to follow the
monkey and finally discovered his secret.
Some days before her
wedding, when she was in the cave to hear the word of god, she went to the
corner where the monkey was hiding. First, he was shocked, so she told him
she would tell everybody about his secret if he forced her to marry him. The
monkey had to give in and from then on, his rulings got normal again.
The female monkey finally
could marry her lover. Actually, she should have been happy about it but doubts
worried her whether the male monkey she had married was really the right male
for her. First, he was not less superstitious than the others, second, he
would have left her for the simple command of a mirror god.
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Saturday, 7 December 2019
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