The Parable of The Wealthy King or Old King Wight

Now there was a FAMINE in the kingdom, so Amándaína, Mother Goddess, came to The Wealthy King for She was starving hungry, and She asked him for food. So the king begrudgingly gave Her food, and She shared it, and ate it, and thanked him and then went on Her way.

And then Amándaína came again and again to the king for there was FAMINE in the land, but The Fat King was Satan to his own people, and he gave Her less and less as he ate more and more and grew fatter as the FAMINE worsened. So Mother Goddess offered to cook a feast for him but the spoiled king petulantly replied, "You have no money and no food and no love, so get thee out!" Yet Amándaína thanked him for his hospitality, such as it was, and She promised to make the king a feast anyway, and then She left and went away.

Now, Mother Goddess is never without Friends and never without Love, so Amándaína asked Her friend, Barák Nanók, the giant Úrugaí-Thraín thief, to bring Her enough of the king's treasury. And noble Barák Nanók, kind and noble Soul that he is, obliged Mother Goddess, and leading the Black Dragon Rangers by moonlight, they snuck into the wealthy king's castle and purloined only a small parcel of his vast treasury before the cock crowed, and made it useful throughout the kingdom!

And so Amándaína brought and set a grand breakfast before hungry King Chief and Chief King, and before his royally well fed house. And the kingdom rejoiced, or so sang the well fed house of King Kong, The King of Kings and Kong of Kongs!

And so King Glutton gorged first and was happy. And the kingdom rejoiced because the bards and skalds were made to sing that lie lest the king be upset with them and slay them in his one-eyed temper!

So the gluttonous king ate HIS fill and want, and shared HIS want and crumbs, as is a king's custom of sharing. Then he thanked the Old Woman, Mother Goddess, and went about his day.

Yet soon came the midday, and the king was done slaying goblins and trolls and dragons, and he was famished again, and so he ordered his army fed, he first of course! And again Amándaína offered to cook him a feast, but this time the cunning king, in his gluttony and fatness, demanded She luncheon his entire army too!

And so Barák Nanók, favorite thief of Mother Goddess for he is quite large of stature, again led the Black Dragon Rangers and now also the Gold Dragon Rangers to plunder HALF the king's vast treasury and ALL his vast larder, all while his entire household was unawares, even as they cleaned up from breakfast!

So Mother Goddess again prepared a grand feast for thankless King Ingrate. And She fed and feasted his vast army of mercenaries bought with his vast wealth, he first of course! Yet Amándaína also fed ALL the towns and hovels surrounding and roundabout! And the kingdom verily rejoiced, and those hymns are true!

And 'good' King Glutton ate his fill and full, then he politely but scheming thanked Mother Goddess again, and the king went about his day.

Then in the evening, when the king was tired of fighting dragons and solving riddles and adventuring, he returned to his kinghold, his royal castle, and proclaimed himself famished with hunger! "I STARVE! Bring me a FEAST! With WINE! And WOMEN! That I may dine on my PLEASURES!"

Now all the food from the king's vast larder was happily eaten and gone so the king's cook, Ámalthéa, pleaded and prayed to Mother Goddess Amándaína for wisdom; and She heard and She came to the king and said, "I will prepare a grandly luxurious feast for thee and thou, and thine royal household and thy famished army!"

So The Thankless King muttered thanks and waved Her off, as is a king's habit, and Mother Goddess smiled and curtsied and went on Her way.

So the Black Dragon Rangers and the Gold Dragon Rangers and the Fire Dragon Rangers and the Sky Dragon Rangers and the Rainbow Dragon Rangers, led by Barák Nanók, favorite thief of Mother Goddess for he is HUGE, they plundered the king's entire treasury completely, and sent it throughout the land and realm and ALL the lands and realms that were around and that surrounded the kingdom and its meanly petty king!

And so a vastly huge and magnificent feast walked in on tables from every land and realm! And the gluttonously famished king was stuffed and drunk and fullbellied and happily content with himself!

And Ámalthéa was exceedingly grateful to Mother Goddess, else King Tantrum, in his shortsighted wrath, would have slain Her! So Ámalthéa thanked Mother Goddess in prayer and sharing, and She danced in rejoicing with Her people, the king's subjects!

Then late that evening, Mother Goddess Amándaína came to Her ear while Ámalthéa was dancing, "Now, open the gate for I bring one last gift for the fat king." And so Ámalthéa opened the gate of the outer wall, and there stood a great gray wolf, but sunken, and all skin on bones, and no meat to it, and it hungrily growled, "Feed Me!" So Ámalthéa showed it the way to the king's royal castle, wherein he and his slumbered drunkenly in his royal hall. And then The Famine Wolf said to Her, "Stay and Remember!" so Ámalthéa stayed and witnessed.

Then the Great Gray Famine Wolf BARKED, and the royal castle doors SHATTERED, and the sudden cold wind and winter snow awakened the sleeping revelers; and the drunkenly gluttonous King Wight demanded, "Who dares!?" And the Great Gray Famine Wolf answered like the dread winter wind, "I am GARM, and GARM am I!" Then King Garm enjoyed the fat of the feast set before him by Mother Goddess, every fat knight of the king's household, every fat mercenary of the king's vast army, and the fat king LAST of course!

HRA! HRA! HRA! HRA! HRA! HRA! HRA! HRA! HRA! HRA! HRA! :)

From the Book of Tales, Fables and Parables of Sythe & Sahyíra

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