Fable
Ananse and The Pot of Wisdom
Long ago, people knew very little. They knew
nothing about farming, tools, or how to weave cloths. Nyame, the God of heaven
had all the wisdom. He kept all the wisdom stored up in a clay pot. One day
Nyame gave Ananse the spider a special gift; the pot, with all the wisdom in
it.
Ananse
was excited. Every time he looked in the clay pot, he learned something new.
Greedily, he decided to keep the pot away from the world. He did not want to
share with anyone else. He tied a rope around his waist so he would be able to
climb a tree. Also, he tied the rope around the pot of wisdom and it hung down
in front of him. He began to climb the tree.
Ananse
tried tying the clay pot full of wisdom to his back, and it really was a lot
easier. In no time he reached the top of the tree. But then he stopped and
thought. "I'm supposed to be the one with all the wisdom, and here this
little kid was smarter than me!" Ananse was so angry about this that he
threw the clay pot down out of the tree. It smashed into pieces on the ground.
Of course, all the wisdom got out and flew away all over the world. That is how
people learned to farm, and to make clothes, and to make iron, and all the
other things that people know how to do.
Moral
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Wisdom cannot be kept secret.
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