{"id":8699,"date":"2021-04-18T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8699"},"modified":"2021-04-18T20:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T03:58:33","slug":"sabala-the-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2021\/04\/sabala-the-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabala the Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this week’s video, Dr. Sharpie, Possum, and some friends decide to act out a story from the Ramayana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As usual, full script is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Rolf: Sharpie, I’ve been reading the Ramayana in comic book form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: Ah! The Ramayana, the great book from India, written down by Valmiki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: I love that book! Let’s act out the story of Sabala the Cow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: Once upon a time there was a Queen who was so powerful that her neighbors didn’t dare to start wars with her. So her country lived in peace and quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Sharpie: Everyone in my country is happy. But I’m bored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General Packie: Let us go with your army and tour your dominions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: They marched until they came to a peaceful grove in the forest where there lived a saintly hermit named Vasishtha. People came from miles away to hear his wise sayings, and to see his miraculous cow Sabala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castor-the-hermit: Please be seated on the sacred grass. How is your majesty?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Sharpie: We are well. And you, and your followers, and your sacred fire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castor-the-hermit: All is well in this delightful grove. You should stay with us, eat the sweet roots and berries I bring, and sit on the sacred grass and meditate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Sharpie [aside]: If I stay here, I’d be even more bored. [to hermit]: You speak with words of wisdom. But really, I must be going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: The hermit insisted, and to be polite the Queen agreed to stay with her army and meditate. Meanwhile, the hermit went to talk with Sabala the Cow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castor-the-hermit: My gentle, loving, friend, we owe much to the Queen, who fights wars that allow us to sit here peacefully. Will you please make a feast fit for a Queen, something more than roots and berries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolf-the-cow: Of course I will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: So Sabala the Cow made a feast appear, with the most wonderful foods for the Queen and her army. This delighted the soldiers. But not the Queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Sharpie [to herself]: Why does a lowly hermit get to have such a cow, but not the Queen? [to the hermit]: Queens have a right to everything in their queendom. So the cow belongs to me. Since I’m so nice, I’ll give you a hundred thousand cows for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castor-the-hermit: I would not exchange Sabala for a million cows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Sharpie: But you need to live simply, and I’m just removing a temptation from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castor-the-hermit: There’s no credit in virtue without temptation. So no, you can’t have her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Sharpie: I’ll give you fourteen thousand elephants and ten million cows. That’s my final offer, and remember: Queens take by force what is not given to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: That Queen isn’t very nice, is she? She thinks she can do whatever she wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castor: I wonder what the hermit will do if the Queen tries to take Sabala the cow away?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolf: I can’t wait to act out the ending of the story next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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