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My last one as of yesterday Monday was
The Eagle and the Jackdraw
Our ego can outweigh our abilities.

The Dog and His Reflection
It is known to me by my father "grasping at shadows" or in his words "grass is NOT always greener somewhere else"
Trying to teach us that being greedy and envious is and it is not a good character to have.

Started on Saturday it is now Tuesday morning. Will make notes on a few that has meaning to me.
It starts out with "The Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog" which kind of has the moments in life "Terms of Life" for the man. Each represented by the animal.

VI: Aesop" functioned more as a legendary archetype—traditionally depicted as a clever, marginalized slave—than a verified historical writer. (an 'archetype' means a classic, universal symbol or "type" of person rather than a specific, concrete historical figure.

VI: The stories come from a mix of older Near Eastern, Sumerian, Egyptian, and Mediterranean oral traditions that were gathered, retold, and written down by various writers (such as Demetrius of Phalareus, Phaedrus, and Babrius) centuries later.