Good post.

It says it many times, don't take it literally, it's a parable.

Parables are allegories, metaphor, analogy and symbolic imagery. Word symbols to reference something in reality corresponded to something else in order to understand one thing in reference to another. That is how we can correlate things and see differences and similarities.

I made a post while ago about this power of symbols and the problem belief creates where people believe whatever they want and are too attached to their imaginary beliefs because they choose to believe it to be "true": Symbols, Reality, Knowledge, Belief and Attachment

Thanks for a good post. Take care. Peace.