Thursday, December 25, 2008


เรื่องเล่าเรื่องข้าว
ลองอ่านๆดูนะ ตำนานเรื่องนี้มีเรื่องราวเหมือนตำนานของม้งที่ว่า.ทำไมข้าว ข้าวโพดถึงไม่มมาบ้านเองเมือนมันสุกเหมือนแต่ก่อน ทำไมเราตอนนี้เราถึงต้องไปเก็บเกี่ยวมา แทนที่จะให้มันมาเอง" น่าสนใจมากเลยทีเดียวว่าทำไมถึงมีเรื่องเล่าที่เหมือนกันอย่างนี้ ก็คงไม่ต่างจากเรื่องเล่าเรื่องน้ำท่น้ำท่วมโลกในทุกชาติภาษา ก็เพราะน้ำท่วมโลกไงหล่ะ ถึงมีเรื่องราวก็ไปทั่วที่คล้ายๆกัน..ถ้าท่วมที่ใดที่หนึ่งเท่านั้นคงไม่ใช่น้ำท่วมโลกล่ะซิ

สำหรับคนที่อ่านไม่เข้าใจก็รอก่อนนะ เดี่ยวเราค่อยมาดูกันอีกทีวันหลังนะคะ วันนี้ภาคอังกฤษไปก่อนนะคะ


"The Legend of the Rice"





In the days when the earth was young and all things were better than they now are, when men and women were stronger and of greater beauty, and the fruit of the trees was larger and sweeter than that which we now eat, rice, the food of the people, was of larger grain.



One grain was all a man could eat; and in those early days, such, too, was the merit of the people, they never had to toil gathering the rice, for, when ripe, it fell from the stalks and rolled into the villages, even unto the granaries. And upon a year when the rice was larger and more plentiful than ever before, a widow said to her daughter "Our granaries are too small. We will pull them down and build larger."



When the old granaries were pulled down and the new one not yet ready for use, the rice was ripe in the fields. Great haste was made, but the rice came rolling in where the work was going on, and the widow, angered, struck a grain and cried, "Could you not wait in the fields until we were ready? You should not bother us now when you are not wanted."



The rice broke into thousands of pieces and said "From this time forth, we will wait in the fields until we are wanted," and from that time the rice has been of small grain, and the people of the earth must gather it into the granary from the fields.

http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-talesfromancientindia3.htm



From: Eva March Tappan, ed., The World's Story: A History of the World in Story, Song and Art, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), Vol. II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, pp. 67-79.



นิทานของอินเดียเรื่องนี้เหมือนของม้งนะ...ว่าไหมล่ะ...เคยได้ยินแม่เล่าฟัง...

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