Tuesday, January 23, 2007

INSIDE ANIMALKIND

Once a king on a hunt got seperated from his party and lost his way in a forest. He spoted a sage in deep mediatation and waited patiently, till the sage came bacvk to, and opened his eyes.

Impressed, the sage pressed him on to get a boon out of him. The boon ultimately chosen by the king was to be blessed with the gift of 'foriegn body entry'....... of the capacity for his soul to leave his own safely deposited body for a temporary while and to enter into any corpse, to be able to move around in its revived condition.

With the boon granted thus, the king tried it on animal kind.... after depositing his own body in the safety of a hole of a tree.... and his soul entered the dead body of a blue bull, a beast bigger than a big deer. And the revived blue bull, guided by the soul of the king, roamed hither and thither, till he came across and got killed by a leopard that descended unexpectedly in a yellow flash from the branch of a tree.

The king then entered into a dead cobra. And feeling hungry inside the revived cobra, the hunted for and captured a live frog. Next began the slow, natural process of swallowing it.The fading erooks of the choking frog drew sharp the attention of a mangoose, a venon-proof mortal enemy of the reptile kind. soon a life and struggle followed, eulminating in the victory of the mongoose. The mongoose then bit off the dead cobra to pieces and consumed them all.

The soul of the king there-upon entered a dead tiger. The revived tiger was soon joined by a tigress, but drew sharp the jealousy of a passing tiger. The passing tiger gave a ferocious fight and also killed off the tiger.

Entering then into the body of a dead ant, the king soon joined the army of its fellow-ants, Enroute, an army of a different species of ants gave battle and the ant got killed in the process.

Spothing a dead dove, the king's soul entered into it and joined its covey in flight. However on alighting, the birds got themselves trapped in a net. The hunter toncerned came to the scene some while later, wrung their necks to death and flung them all into his shoulder sack.

The king had enough and went back to his own body in the hole of the tree. Finding a python making its slow process to creep into the hole in order to swallow the body, the king hastened back into it and jumped, in time, right out escaping the snatch of the python.

And then the king hurried back to his own people and kingdom

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