Temple Story

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A young scorpion left his village to discover the big wide world.

Despite the fact that all the other scorpions in the village and

particulary, the older and wiser ones, tried to dissuade him, he

packed his bundle, chose the old and forgotten peregrination stick

of the temple and took leave from all on a sunny sunday afternoon.

It didn't take long time until he noticed, about what the old were

talking about, dissuating him from the journey. People ran away,

clamant and full of fear, as soon he appeared in the horizon. Soon,

the villages he met on his way were abandoned and even the animals

seemed to have disappeared progrediently out of his way. For weeks

he walked alone through desertic landscapes in deep desolation and

desperateness. He asked himself continuously why, why and why. Like

a mantra. Even at night, when he slept the question were there in

his dreams. Soon, he became weak. He took his last meal for weeks

ago and he couldn't find nothing edible in the abandoned villages.

He gave up. The distance back to his village was too big. He decide

to sit down and wait for death. It didn't took long time and he fell

in a sort of coma.

But, he waked up. He saw a face near him and hands reaching him

water, salt and pollen. He recovered soon and was able to speak to

the old woman near him. She told him stories he couldn't understand.

Fascinating and esoteric tales and allegories. The young scorpion

began to suspect that the old woman could be crazy. But, her care

and the histories she told eased him. He began also to feel love and

profound respect towards the woman. Slowly his world gone to pieces

during the journey were restored. Life, outside his village,

couldn't be so cruel. There was hope.

The time to say good-bye came. The old woman reached her hand to

him. In a moment uncertainness the young scorpion, having so much

hands to offer, decided to give her his most precious one, his sting.

 

Our young scorpion went back to his village and it took a very long

time until another young scorpion decided to do the journey. Exactly

the time until this story, written on the stones of the temple,

began to vanish.

 

 

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