The Story of Miobi

There’s an old Egyptian story about a little boy named Miobi who came to a village where the people were very strange. They did little more than moan and groan about almost everything. The fires didn’t get lit, the goats didn’t get milked, the children didn’t get clothed, and the crops didn’t get planted, all because the villagers were expecting any time to get eaten by the monster that lived on top of the mountain.

Miobi looked up and behold - the monster was real. He had a head like her crocodile and a body like a hippopotamus and a tail like a very fat snake. Smoke and fire came from his no...