The Frogs and the Stone God

Sham S. Misri

In a pond there lived many frogs. Just near the pond there was an old temple where there were round smooth elongated stones, some black and some white.  Some of the frogs would go to the temple and would worship an elongated stone that was in the temple considered the stone as their god.  The frogs would go to this stone and pray.

One day, one young frog thought, “Why have these frogs been praying to this stone for generations? What’s so special about this stone anyway?”
So one day when all the frogs were praying before the stone god, this young frog jumped over the stone. Everyone was shocked.  To see the young frog jump over the stone!”
”Yes!” the young frog exclaimed. “So how can that be God? Why have you been worshipping this stone for so long? If that was God, how could I have jumped over it?”
And then the frogs said, “Yes, it’s true what he’s saying. We’ve been so foolish! So, our dear young frog, then you please tells us what should we worship?”
”You should worship an entity who is so tall that you cannot jump over him.”
”Oh? Who is that?”
”I have seen one big, white bird with a long beak. The stork. He’s very tall. A frog cannot jump over a stork.”
”Oh very good! Let’s go to the stork.”
So they all went to the stork and began to pray. The stork thought, “Aah! For so long I’ve had to hunt for frogs to eat, but now they’re all coming to me. Very nice.” So he ate them all one by one.