Vic Parker

Moral - don't dish it out if you can't take it.

Moral rephrased - Don't be a jerk to others if you don't want others being a jerk to you.

There's this fox who is a douchebro, and decides to invite his neighbor, the stork, over to dinner. Fox serves soup, which the stork can not eat because of his long beak while the fox easily laps up the soup, and makes a display of it and needles the stork.

Stork is a lot more mature than fox, so he remains calm and doesn't throw a fit. A while later, the show more stork invites the fox to dinner, serving fish in a tall jar with a thin neck, something the stork can easily eat from because of his beak, but the fox has no way to easily access the food.

Predictably, the fox is a whiny little bitch about it. The stork just calmly replies with the moral of the story...

'Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can stand the same treatment yourself.'

Yeah, you go, stork. Learn that stupid fox bow to not be such a fucking douchebro! show less

So, the mice and weasels are at war. Generally the weasels have had the advantage because of their size. So the mice hold a council to try to figure out what to do. They cone to the conclusion that the mice keep getting defeated because they have no leaders. So a large amounts of generals and commanders were promoted from the mice.

These mice decide that because of their promotion, they'd wear adornment as befitting of their new status. (maybe some of you can see where this is going...) They show more decorate themselves with straw, feathers, etc that have been fashioned into crests and what have you. They prepare for war and so on, and challenge the weasels.

Again, the weasels kick the asses of the mice, and the line breaks up and the mice flee. The unadorned mice slip away easily into the small holes and burrows, but the adorned mice are unable to because of the crap they put on themselves, and the weasels ate them all.

I think the moral here is a little on the nose, but it's a decent tale and the moral is one worth considering.

Moral - Greatness has its penalties.

Also, hahaha, stupid fucking mice. show less

(A Dog asleep in a manger filled with hay, was awakened by the Cattle, which came in tired and hungry from working in the field. But the Dog would not let them get near the manger, and snarled and snapped as if it were filled with the best of meat and bones, all for himself.

The Cattle looked at the Dog in disgust. "How selfish he is!" said one. "He cannot eat the hay and yet he will not let us eat it who are so hungry for it!"

Now the farmer came in. When he saw how the Dog was acting, he show more seized a stick and drove him out of the stable with many a blow for his selfish behavior.)

Boy howdy, that Dog was being a real asshat, wasn't he? He certainly wouldn't be the first dumbshit dog I've seen or heard of.

Moral - Do not grudge others what you cannot enjoy yourself. show less

Our book starts off with “Creation Mythology” with my personal favorites being Aboriginal Myths in Dreamtime and Early Japanese Myths since some of the Gods are jutsus in Naruto which is an Anime. The next portion is “Gods and Spirits” which I have to say Egyptian was my favorite followed by Celtic in this book. Up next is “Epic Heroes and Adventures” though I can’t decide which mythology is the best since those stories were just that good. After that is “Magic and Mystery” show more which my favorite being the Russian folktale of Baba-Yaga the Witch hands down. “Life and Love” continues the book with this section being very hard to choose from, though I’d say my top choices are The Firebird, Yama-Kumar and the Healing Gift, plus also Fenris the Wolf. Finishing off the book is “Destruction and Death” which my personal favorite is The Pied Piper of Hamelin, closely followed by The Death of Balder and Pandora’s Box.

I absolutely loved this book since mythology is just such an interesting subject to learn about. So I’d consider myself a pretty big mythology buff before I read this book though when I read it I just realized how small my knowledge of mythology actually was. My personal favorite small mythology now is Celtic closely followed by Russian because of their tales and creatures they have. I just love the ideas and all of the things and if I’m being honest I want to make my own country which central religion is a blend of all mythologies. I really wish that mythologies are just more popular than what they are since there just so good and adventurous. I don’t really care how much you consider yourself a massive mythology buff you still need to read this to learn so much more and I just hope you read every story in here. show less