A long time ago, there lived a great king who ruled over a rich kingdom of Kampucheastan. He had a wise and beautiful Queen, four Chief Ministers, a Royal Astrologer, who always helped the king make decisions, and a whole class of Mandarins and great Officials to perform all the honors for the king.
He worried that if an army should invade his Kingdom, it might be easily overrun. One day, early in the morning, the King had the idea of going to learn magic, which were so necessary for victory in battle, with a great and famous guru who lived in the far-off kingdom of Krung Chen. There they asked him to instruct them in magic, which the great guru did. So the King and his whole entourage were taught magic practices. When they had learned all that their teacher could tell them, the King decided it was time to return to their own Kingdom. Accompanied by the Queen, the Royal Astrologer and the four Chief Ministers, he set out on his journey but they got lost in a huge forest. They had eaten all the food they had brought with them and they began to eat all the roots and berries they could find. The king began to worry that perhaps he would die so he called all the other members of the group together. "Our end may be near because we have no food to keep us alive, what should we do?" The Royal Astrologer suggested to the king "perhaps we should use the magic which we learned to turn ourselves into a tiger, then we could catch other animals to eat. We could wait until we got back to our own Kingdom to turn ourselves back into humans again. The other members of the group all agreed with the Astrologer's idea. Which part of the tiger's body do you each wish to be?" the king asked. The four Chief Ministers wanted to turn into the four legs of the tiger, the Astrologer into the tiger's tail and the Queen into the tiger's body. The tiger's head was left for the king himself. So they all recited the magic formulae to transform their bodies and . . . there stood a Royal Tiger. Soon the Tiger felt quite hungry and bounded off to catch deer and antelope to eat. He did not regret his wonderful new life. After a time, the Tiger was so happy that he forgot the magic to turn themselves back into humans again when they arrive back to their Kingdom. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
