NEW CONTEST: MY FAVOURITE CHILDHOOD STORY; ANANSE BY @MASSACHUSSETS

Hello Steemians,
I am so happy to take part in this contest about your favorite childhood story.
I'd like to also express my gratitude to the Writing & Reviews Team @belenguerra, @writingnreviews, and @fendit for providing this opportunity for us to learn some valuable lessons while also enjoying the reading.

A lot of stories comes to mind when I think of childhood stories but I have one that rings always that is story of Ananse. Most of the stories I heard were from my grandmother who passed on just when I was 12. She liked to tell us stories every weekends most especially after we came back from farm. This one I could clearly remember, it was one sunny afternoon, we had gone to the farm to harvest our groundnuts. Everyone was tired, we the kids didn’t work we just accompanied them and also helped them carry their little luggage.

After we were done, we sat near a big mango where we took our rest always. I could remember clearly we did set some fire to roast some yams we brought from home so we could satisfy our hunger. In the process of eating the roasted yam my granny saw that we were bored so she said she had a story for us. I was so happy. She started the story which was about ananse. I will give a summary of the story below.

Summary of the story
First of all, Anansi is a term used by the Ashanti people of Ghana to describe a spider. Anansi is also a character from African folklore. He also takes the form of a spider and is thought to be the spirit of all story knowledge. In West African and Caribbean folklore, he is also one of the most important characters. The story am about to share is an Anansi story that describes how his name came to be associated with the entire corpus of tales.

ANANSE

There was a time when the universe was devoid of stories. Nyame, the Sky God, had them all. Anansi went to Nyame and inquired about the cost of purchasing the stories. Nyame demanded a hefty amount. Anansi had to get back the Mmoboro Hornets, Onini the python, and Osebo the leopard under three conditions. Anansi set out to capture them. He started by catching the hornets.

Anansi filled a calabash with water and spilled some on himself and the nest, proclaiming it to be raining. He proposed the hornets enter the empty calabash, and when they did, he quickly closed the gap. Then he carried a long bamboo pole and some thick vines to the python's home.

He and his wife had argued over whether the python was actually longer than the bamboo stick, so he questioned it out loud. When Anansi explained the debate to the python, it decided to lie along the bamboo pole. It was difficult to get a true sense of the python's actual length because he couldn't easily make himself perfectly straight. He grew shorter at one end as he stretched at the other. As a result, the python consented to being tethered to the pole. Anansi took him to Nyame when he was fully bound.

Anansi dug a deep pit in the ground to trap the leopard. Anansi offered to pull the leopard out of the pit with a sturdy rope when he fell in.
He attached a tall tree to the ground, bending it towards the ground so that its top was over the pit. He then hung a rope from the tree and tossed the other end into the pit. He said, "Tie this to your tail." The rope was bound to Osebo's tail. “Did it tie well” Anansi enquired. The leopard replied, "Yes, it is well-tied." “In that scenario, you are not partially foolish, you are all-foolish,” Anansi said.

And he cut the other rope, the one that kept the tree bowed to the ground, with his knife. With a pop, the tree straightened, yanking Osebo out of the hole. He hung upside down in the air, twisting and turning. And while he hung in this position, Anansi used his arrow to kill him. Then he brought the leopard's body to Nyame, the Sky God, and said, "Here is the third thing." I've paid the price now.” “Kwaku Anansi, great warriors and chiefs have tried, but they haven't been able to pull it off,” Nyame told him. You've completed the task. As a result, I'll tell you the tales. From now on, all stories are yours to tell.

According to the novel, there are two types of people on Earth: trickers and those who are fooled. We will fall victim to the cleverer lot if we are not wise enough.

That is why, in parts of Africa, people enjoy narrating and listening to what they refer to as "spider tales." Despite the fact that it is a simplistic tale about a trickster, there are a few lessons to be learned from it: Nothing is unlikely when one is determined. Since Anansi was so determined to own all of the world's stories, he went to great lengths to achieve his goal. Size has no bearing on power. Anansi was just a tiny spider, but he defeated creatures far larger than himself.

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