Why the sky is far above the earth

I was raised by my grandparents in Owerri, the Imo state capital in Nigeria. While I was with them, I always anticipated and enjoyed the folktales told to me by my grandad. Today, I wish to share one of them with us. Please read and enjoy.

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When God created the heaven and the earth, he fixed the sky a few feet above man's head so that people could easily stretch their hands and touch it. Men in those days needed neither to work nor toil. The sky was their food, and whenever they were hungry they could cut out a piece and cook or roast it as they liked.

God had warned them, however, that one should ever cut more than he could eat at one time. The punishment for breaking this rule would be borne by all mankind. The sky would cease to be man's food, for God would raise it up so that no one would ever be able to reach it again.

Now there was just one man who always liked to have the biggest share of everything. While everyone else was satisfied with taking only what he needed, one day this glutton cut a very large piece from the sky. So much did he take that he could not finish it all and what was left began to increase until the whole town was filled as well as his own house.

When God saw what was happening, he came down to earth from his heavenly abode to look into the cause of the trouble. Soon he did discovered this man's greed and in his anger removed the sky beyond man's reach. From that day forth, all men were doomed to perpetual toil and the cultivation of the land, without which they would starve.

Men have been tillers of the soil ever since and to this day, if we see an idle man who eats more than his share, we may ask whether the sky is his source of food.

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