Humanity 100 Fable #1 The Caterpiller & The Worms

Illustrated by T. Andrew Jones

A caterpillar was born, abandoned, and adopted by worms.

The caterpillar was raised like a worm, in the dirt.  One morning a butterfly hovered over the dirt and spotted the caterpillar.  The butterfly told the caterpillar the secret to flight.
 

The caterpillar told the worms.
 

But the worms told the caterpillar it was a daydream. 
The worms said butterflies were mythological creatures from cocoons. 
 

And cocoons were figments of every worm’s imagination.
Then the worms convinced the caterpillar to accept the natural role of worms in the flightless world created by the fowl gods.
 

And for the rest of the caterpillar’s life it spent its mornings hiding from early birds and its afternoons worshiping the fowl gods.