Karrianndi Golden Dragon----
Once there was a great golden dragon
whose name has been lost to time.
He lived in a cave on top of a mountain
near the village of Karrianndi,
far east of the Black Sea.
In the village there lived
a brilliant and beautiful young maiden named Oroxxa.
The great dragon fell deeply in love with her
when she was only sixteen.
He swore his heart to her
and because he was a very kind and just dragon,
she returned his love and pledged her heart to him.
For many years the dragon watched over Oroxxa
and the village in which she lived.
Oroxxa and her grand dragon could often be seen
on the steppes near Karrianndi
enjoying the passing days with one another.
The villagers didn't mind Oroxxa's strange love affair
because the dragon protected them
and brought them food and trees for firewood
from time to time.
The two were constant companions
and the great dragon
soon showed her many wonders of the world.
By the time she was twenty-one,
young Oroxxa knew of the Rhine river,
the Alps and the great rift valley.
She had seen China,
and had met a Pharaoh of Egypt.
The villagers of Karrianndi were very proud of her
and they liked to say that one day
she would become the wisest woman in all Asia.
Then, when Oroxxa was twenty-four she fell deathly ill.
The great dragon flew as far as distant Crete in the west
and China in the east seeking a cure for Oroxxa to no avail.
On a dark, moonless night in September four sixty-two B.C.
Oroxxa died.
The great dragon fell into a deep depression.
In mourning the loss of his true love,
he returned to his cave
not to be seen or heard from again for ten long years.
In four fifty-two B.C. he returned to Karrianndi
and told the villagers he would seek out
the finest human he could find,
and teach them some of the ways
dragons gained knowledge from the world
in the hope that humans could become wiser
in the subtleties of their own kind
The dragon searched far and wide for two years
until he befriended an eleven year old boy
near Kos, Greece named Hippokrátēs.
It is said the dragon taught him until he was in his twenties.
By the time Hippokrátēs died in three seventy B.C.
his fellow Greeks knew him as the father of all medicine.
Although many of his views have been lost to us,
twenty-four centuries later
the man we now call Hippocrates
is still well known among men.
Dewey Dirks copyright 2010
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