• AeronMelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 个月前

    Ancient Japanese proverb.

    A man is cutting wood in the forest and his axe falls into a lake. A goddess emerges from the lake holding a silver axe and a gold axe. She asks the man which axe belongs to him. He says neither of them are his. She praises him for his honesty and gives the man both axes as a reward.

    • Hoimo@ani.socialEnglish
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      1 个月前

      He never got his steel axe back. That poor man returned home without firewood because gold is too soft to cut trees. He tried to sell the gold, but was attacked by robbers and didn’t have a steel axe to defend himself. He died and his children froze to death the next winter. Arigatou Amaterasu-sama.