I'm a little hazy on the details so bear with me. I need to identify this story, which I believe is somewhere in the bible -- the point of the story is that you can't keep a secret.
There was a man who discovered some gold (?) and buried it somewhere and wanted to keep its location secret. He was giddy with excitement and couldn't stand having the secret, so he wispered his secret to the grass, and the grass whispered it to the trees and the trees wispered it to the wind, and the wind carried it everywhere.
Does this ring a bell with anyone? it may not be from the Bible, maybe it's a fable, but it is definitely very old.
2007-01-13 14:12:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I know of a story like it: King Midas
In the middle of the story after he gets the power to change everything he touches into gold, he realizes that the power is too great and he can't eat or even touch the people he loved. So he asks the Greek god Apollo to take the power away from him. As punishment for his foolish request, Apollo gives him donkey ears. King Midas runs around wearing a tall hat and only he and his barber know about it. Unfortunately the barber was a big gossip and eventually he could no longer hold the secret in. So he goes off to the banks of a river, digs a little hole and whispers the secret into it. The river reeds heard him and while telling each other, the wind picks up the info and everyone in the kingdom finds out. Eventually Midas finds out but instead of punishing the barber he forgives him and Apollo takes away his donkey ears.
Hope this is what you meant.
2007-01-13 14:25:45 · answer #1 · answered by ♥☺ bratiskim∞! ☺♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am about 99% sure this is not in the bible. The closest thing I can come to, a about someone burring gold, is the story in Luke 19:9. My guess is that it is a fable.
2007-01-13 14:29:06 · answer #2 · answered by Jim R 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Old Testament book of Job which states (28:5-6) As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; and under it is turned up as it was fire. The stones of it are the place of Sapphires, and it hath the dust of gold.
Another biblical text, from the book of Exodus, discusses this mysterious combination - but in a form which moves one step nearer to the "bread" connotation by describing the white powder as a type of food. It appears in the story of Moses and the Isrealits at Mount Horeb in Sinai, when Moses is disturbed to find that his brother Aaron had collected the gold rings from the Isrealits and forged them a golden calf as an idol of worship. The account relates that Moses took the golden calf, burned it with fire, transposed it into powder and fed it to the Isrealits. This story has long baffeled theologians because heating or burning gold with fire does not, of course, produce powder.: it produces molten gold. Later in the story however, it is explained that the fine powder could be wiped with a frankincense and made it into white bread cakes, which the old Septuagint Bilble calls "the bread of presence".
In our modern society these stories may be related to the discovery of Monatomic Gold. Our ancient ancestors left us messages, foretelling the rediscovery of a White Powder gold that could facilitate our journey into realms of Higher Consciousness.
2007-01-13 15:48:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not in the Bible
In the Bible snakes can sometimes talk, but not the grass and not the trees..
2007-01-13 14:19:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its from easops fables, it teaches you not to be a gossip because then it comes back and it bites you on the rear....I also once read it in a book of greek myths. Bratiskim has the right answer...
2007-01-13 16:16:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I take the third option. I hit upon greater with Eve in this tale, than the two Cain or Abel. She misplaced a baby, her fashionable baby, and there is no better loss interior the international. i will think of the discomfort she felt understanding that one liked baby murdered yet another, and not in any respect understanding in the past that one can would desire to be secure against her very own flesh and blood. it could rip my coronary heart out if considered one of my daughters killed yet another considered one of my daughters.
2016-10-19 22:59:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard this. It's definitely NOT from the Bible.
2007-01-13 14:17:52 · answer #7 · answered by Suzy Q. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, not a Bible story.
2007-01-13 14:17:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's definitely not from the bible...
2007-01-13 14:21:25 · answer #9 · answered by babheee 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not in the bible
2007-01-13 14:18:03 · answer #10 · answered by furmanator1957 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋