18: The Blue Jackal - A Panchatantra story about the moment the truth comes out.

from The Long Thread - Ancient Stories For The Present Moment. · host Ashvee Kanwar

A jackal fell into a vat of blue dye.He emerged a deep, impossible blue - a color no animal had ever seen.The lions bowed. The elephants stared.The forest made him king.For a time, everything worked.Until the night he heard other jackalshowling at the moon.This two-thousand-year-old story fromthe Panchatantra knows something aboutall of us.

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