he puts the dwarf's body in a kola tree and waits.
When his son [] come by and asks his father if he'd seen the dwarf,
Anansi tells him that the dwarf is climbing the tree looking for a kola nut.
The quicken sin climbs up the tree the dwarf's body falls down to the ground
Anansi cries out that "his son had killed the King's jester!" But [] knows Anansi's tricks and replies that the King was
actually angry with the dwarf and now he could go to the king and collect a reward.
Knowing there's a bounty Anansi exclaims that he had killed the dwarf.
Anansi arrives at the Kings court and discovers the King was not angry with the Jester.
But now he's certainly angry with Anansi. The king orders the body oflearns is that ants are total suckers.
It's really like a Quentin Tarantino film of trickster myths.
The story of Anansi and the Ant bears some resemblance to one of Hercules's labors.
We'll talk more about Hercules when we get to our episode on heroes,
but the long and short is that he had to do twelve labors, and completing them cemented his reputation.
One of these labours, the eleventh, was to gather Zeus's Golden Apples from the far end of the Earth.
These apples were guarded by a dragon (Ladon) and the Hesperides,
nymphs who were the daughters of Atlas, the Titan with the unenviable task of holding the world on his shoulders.
Talk about legendary back pain.
It took a long time and a number of adventures before Hercules even found out where the apples