μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Planting for the next generation. Man who is planting tree told that it will never mature in his day. He is planting for the next generation.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in provision for live. · Forethought in provision for life (general). · view the constellation · filed as J701.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Jewish*Neuman.
  • general Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 235 No. 516
  • general Chauvin II 208 No. 75
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Filed under Provision for the future.

Filed beside it
King improves kingdom before leaving it to his sons. He leaves it smaller but much stronger and richer
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