In the heights of the black mountain and in a mysterious cave that the wicked witch Asura had created, lived a demon but he was a strange demon, not an ordinary creature anyone knew clearly. Everyone called him Kraton by name. He had been placed there by the witch after he continued to refuse to obey the orders of the wicked wizards.
And that magical cave had only one entrance and exit, and its location would change every day. But one day, a wicked man named Jifa was able to reach that land. His wish was to destroy and sweep all those rough mountains from existence by destroying them all. And Jifa was in trouble fulfilling his wish.
When Jifa heard about Kraton, he thought of saving him to help him in his wicked plan by distracting him as much as possible from the roughness of his manners. So Jifa traveled to the black mountain and accompanied him all his relatives, where there were many of them, and they were afraid of his evil to the point that they didn’t take a long time to discover the cave’s entrance from outside.
One of those relatives was an extremely wise old man who discovered the way to know the location of the exit every day from outside. When Jifa was inside the mountain, the old man informed him of this after Jifa showed him the system of the cave, where he said to him: “When you exit from the cave, you must wait until night, and confirm not exiting during the day.”
So Jifa outwitted the wise old man and told him that he didn’t want to hear more. Then Jifa entered the cave during the darkness of evening. Jifa began to run with panic and speed, looking for a way out, and told the demon that he would save him from the cave if he helped him turn the people there for a minimum of ten years at least.
The demon who heard Jifa’s plan was annoyed, for everything he wanted to do was escape from the cave and burn the ancestors’ punishment. After several days, they found each other in the middle of the darkness of evening, and there they made a fearsome agreement. After Jifa left what the old man advised him, they quickly found the way out.
When they exited from it, the first sun of evening began to set in the west. Jifa remembered the wise old man’s words after they exited, so Jifa sat fearfully waiting for the disappearance of the sun’s rays. But the demon who saw himself free in the desert didn’t want to listen to this talk about waiting, and forgot the old man’s warning on Jifa’s spotlessness. So Kraton abandoned the cave quickly.
From inside the cave, Jifa heard the terrifying shouts of Kraton the hungry. He was afraid but was also in need of the food and water. And even though he was still remembering his wise father’s words, he decided to exit. As soon as the evening light ended and the huge sun blinded his two eyes, the darkness surrounded Jifa.
He lost his sight as happened to Kraton a few moments before, and thus those wicked creatures became homeless because of the evil they were doing to people, and they weren’t even able to see how their plan ended. They remained fearing forever in the life of the darkness of evening, avoiding mixing with other ordinary creatures with them because of their wickedness.
The Moral Value Learned:
When evil does its deeds against others, let him dig a hole for himself and hide in it what he can, and work on spreading the evil among people, for God will plant love in hearts and save him from his doom without account.
Translated from: Kraton’s Labyrinth