Anansi - The keeper of wisdom
Once upon a time, there was a clever spider sage called Anansi. 👁 The spider wanted to become the wisest man in the world and decided to collect every piece of Wisdom, he could find and keep it for himself. 👁 So he went out into the big, wide world and asked everyone he saw to share their wisdom with him. 👁 Most of the people offered it right away, since someone who seeks wisdom must be a lot wiser than themselves. 👁 The spider sage placed every piece of wisdom, he could acquire into a bottle, made of an empty pumpkin. 👁 After years of hard work, the pumpkin was finally full. 👁 Now Anansi had to decide where to hide all the wisdom, he had gained. 👁 He came to the conclusion, that the best place to hide it would be at the top of a really large tree. 👁 A tree so high, that only a spider could climb it. 👁 So he tied the bottle onto his belly and started climbing the tree. 👁 But since climbing a tree with a big and heavy bottle in front of him was really difficult, he had to stop midway and take a break. 👁 At that moment, he heard his youngest son laughing from down below. 👁 "Why did you bind the bottle to your belly? 👁 Wouldn't it be much easier to carry it on your back instead?" 👁 he shouted up the tree. 👁 Anansi thought 👁 "I should give it a try." 👁 And indeed, after binding the bottle to his back with his webs, he managed to climb up to the top of the tree without much trouble. Having reached his goal, Anansi looked at the bottle, filled with all the wisdom in the world, and began to think: 👁 "If even a small child was able to figure this out, collecting all this wisdom was in vain." 👁 So Anansi opened the bottle and poured all the wisdom he had collected down to earth. 👁 At that moment, he finally understood what true wisdom meant. 👁 Over time, more and more people started gathering under the tree and tried to collect the spilled wisdom, that had been released to the world. 👁 Some only had a small spoon, others came with pots and buckets. 👁 Everyone tried to collect as much wisdom as he could. 👁 And this is why wisdom is spread so unevenly among people. 👁 The end
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