The No, yeah. Oh, I'm not. All right man. This is the introduction for episode 191 of Crow Triple 7 radio.

This is going to be an interesting episode. I commiserated on whether or not to do it.

I'm very interested in very old creation stories. I'm not content with the idea that human beings

just magically appeared here one day. So for most of my adult life I've tried to

listen and record and learn something from indigenous peoples creation stories.

This one's going to be challenging and there's no way to blunt the tip of it.

As I began to do the research for the Bach Saga, it's like a swift kick in the head. It just is. It is what it is. But as I began to realize just how much goat encoding there is everywhere, I decided I had to do it. from the president reading pet goat on that fateful day to an endless litany of examples I could give you and I'll give you one here

There was a movie called Little Buddha which paraphrased a very old Eastern

parable and this is how it goes. From the movie, Lama Norbu says,

Once Upon a time in a village in ancient India, there was a little goat and a priest. The priest wanted to

sacrifice the goat to the gods. He raised his arm to cut the goat's throat when

suddenly the goat began to laugh. The priest stopped amazed and asked the goat, why do you laugh?

Don't you know I'm about to cut your throat? Oh yes, said the goat.

After 499 times of being reborn as a goat, I will be reborn as a human being.

Then the little goat began to cry.

The high priest said,

Why are you now crying, goat?

And the goat replied, for you poor priest, five hundred lives ago,

I too was a high priest and sacrificed goats to the gods.

The priest dropped to his knees saying,

forgive me, I beg forgiveness. From now on I will be the guardian and

protector of every goat in the land I could go on and on with other parables that involve

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