Outdoor Lesson

One of our elders was teaching our youngsters about animals and botany near the sacred cave, explaining what herbs were good after a heavy meal, which ones were best suited to cure a bad cough, what were the differences between a wolf and a dog.\nIt was in the middle of these explanations that one of the kids shouted: “That’s a raccoon, teacher!”. After muttering: “That’s nonsense,” the teacher followed him to discover a small deposit of ancient ceramics. One of them caught his attention: it was a beautiful pitcher decorated with animal patterns, one of those being, as the proud child had stated, a raccoon indeed.