SHACK 143 THE PROPHET

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In a land in some mystical place there were many fields and many sheep and cattle, it was a peaceful place and families with tribes lived in harmony, the country was named 'The Country of No Cut' for no one had ever cut their flesh and had seen blood, they had extra strong skin and other anatomical differences.

There was a legend; that from the fields one day The Prophet would come and he was called 'The Prophet of the Cut Finger' at that time a holy phrase was afoot 'Bloody Aida, Bloody Hell'. Aida was supposed to be the mythical Mother of  The Prophet and well, hell needs no explanation.

A shepherd boy guarding his flock from the dreaded nargs(a ferocious snarling wolf like beast) was sipping his drink from his conch shell and listening to the sound of the wind in the trees and playing his harp and all that, and suddenly dashing across the sky was huge meteorite and so large was it and luminous that it lit up the whole countryside and the village where the boy resided. 

He gasped and then fell heavily on the rock he was sitting on. Immediately he felt pain and looking down at his fingers he saw blood.

Terrified he ran into the village, as soon as he went in and the villagers saw him, for the meteorite had awakened them, they fell to the ground and said in reverence ' behold the Divine Light has brought forth THE PROPHET'  the boy cried out in agony and they 'said he is in trance in holy communion', 'help me said the boy'.

The villagers kissed his fingers and exclaimed 'bloody Aida, bloody hell' they went to the stone where the blood of the prophet had been spilled, a fence was built round it and only on certain days, holy days which marked the anniversary of the event, people were allowed in to bow before the stone and kiss it.  The Shrine to Prophet of the Cut Finger.

Meanwhile the Shepherd Boy had many sheep and cattle with many wives and concubines and was heard to exclaim pardon me pray and chant 'BLOODY AIDA, BLOODY HELL ' and still walked around gob smacked.

Now throughout the land people from far and wide came to worship the shrine. Others who did not believe and were jealous started wars and grievances and some wise elders wondered and pondered would it have not been better if the prophet would have not had that accident or was it really Divine Providence--------Bloody Aida---Bloody Hell.

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