SHORT STORY
“Blind HusBand”
A man married a beautiful girl. He loved her very much. But, one day her wife
developed a skin disease. Slowly her wife started to lose her beauty. It is so happened that one
day her husband left for a business trip. While returning he met an accident and lost his
eyesight. However their married life continued as usual. Bu as days passed by, she lost her
beauty gradually. Blind husband did not know this and there was not any difference in their
married life. He continued to love her and she also loved him so much. One day, her wife died.
Her death brought him a great sorrow. He finished all her last rites and wanted to leave the
town. A man from behind called and said, now how will you be able to walk all alone? All
these days your wife used to help you. He replied, I am not blind. I was acting, because if she
knew I could see her ugliness it would have pained her more than her disease. So I pretend to
be blind. She was a good wife. I only want to make her happy because I love her.
SHORT STORY
“The Story of truth and Falsity”
Translated by: Darryl Yap
According to a legend, Truth and Falsity crosses the path, Falsity says, “It is indeed a
beautiful day right?” Truth looked up in heaven, raised his eyes around and sighed, “Yes, It
was a beautiful day.” The companionship and travel of the two were frequent, until they were
driven into a well. Falsity say, “The water is fine, let’s take a bathe!” Truth doubted again, it
lowered its feet and there, he proved that the water is really fine. --- Yes, the good water bath at
the well. They quickly undress and take a bath. But suddenly the truth felt that Falsity was
no longer in the well, he went up and found that Falsity was wearing his clothes and then he
quickly ran. Truth was so angry, he find Falsity and his the dress. The whole world saw
Truth as naked; the world dislikes it, managed it and felt wrong. And since then, the Poor
Truth has just hidden in the well and never came out again, out of shame and judgement.
While as for Falsity, who has dressed like the Truth, travelled all over the world appealing
and fulfilling all the wishes of society and man. The world has forgotten who hid in the well,
because no one wants to know the Naked Truth.
Greek: ATHENA
Greek: Apollo
Roman: MINERVA
Roman: PHOEBUS
Description:
Description:
~ She is the
goddess of wisdom,
poetry, arts and
strategic side of
war.
~ He is the god of
sun, music, healing
and herding.
Greek: Eris
Greek: Aphrodite
Roman: Discordia
Roman: Venus
Description:
Description:
~ She is the
goddess of strife
and discord.
~ She is the
goddess of love and
beauty.
Greek: Hephaestus
Greek: Poseidon
Roman: Vulcan
Roman: Neptune
Description:
Description:
~ He is the god of
fire and the forge.
He made armors
and weapons for
the gods.
~ He is the god of the
oceans and kings of the
sea gods. Also god of
rivers, storms, flood and
drought, earthquakes
and horses.
Greek: Gaea
Greek: Amphitrite
Roman: terra
Roman: salacia
Description:
Description:
~ She was the great
goddesses of early Greeks.
She represented the earth and
worshipped as the universal
mother. She created the
universe and gave birth to the
first race gods (TITANS) and
the first humans.
~ She was a sea goddess.
Under the influence of the
Olympian pantheon, she
become merely the consort
of Poseidon, and was
further diminished by
poets to a symbolic
representation of the sea.
Greek: Hestia
Greek: Zeus
Roman: Vesta
Roman: Jupiter
Description:
~ She is a virgin
goddess of the health,
architecture, and the
right ordering of
domesticity, the
family, the home, and
the state.
Description:
~ He is the god of
all gods. The god of
lightning, thunder
and heaven.
Greek and
roman gods
and
goddesses