Having completed the creation of the world, God asked man:
- What should I make longer - summer or winter?
The man responded:
- Ask my friends the horse and the bull. Let it be as they say.
The horse god asked first:
- How would you like winter to be longer than summer or summer to be longer than winter?
“I would like,” the horse answered, “for the summer to be long, otherwise in winter my hooves get very cold.”
Then God asked the bull:
- What do you say: what should I lengthen and what should I shorten?
The bull replied:
It would be better to lengthen the winter, my nose gets wet in the summer heat.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru