1-The Green Light.

Hamadek was the son of a shepherd in a faraway land under the mountains. He lived with his father and their cattle in a solitary hut near a wood. During the day, his father would take the animals into the wood for grazing while Hamadek would prepare meals for them both, and cut the wood for the fire. His father never allowed Hamadek to take the cattle into the woods and warned him to never venture into it alone. This was the life that Hamadek knew, doing his chores and occasionally going down to the stream for a swim.

One morning, just after Hamadek’s father had taken the animals into the woods, heavy rain began to pour. It rained so heavy that the boy began to worry about his father, yet he couldn’t go after him as he was forbidden to do so. It was really dark when his father returned with half the cattle. He was shivering of cold and suffering from high fever. “Why didn’t you take shelter under a tree or a rock?” When Hamadek asked this, his father replied that he had to go after the animals which had scattered. The whole night his father was really ill. The boy made a soup and mixed medicinal herbs into it.  His condition improved when the father drank this soup, yet he was not fully recovered and groaned with pain the whole night. That night when Hamadek went for wood outside, he saw that the sky had now cleared and the stars were visible. In the morning, Hamadek told his father: “Today I will take the animals and search for the missing ones.” His father didn’t say anything, apparently, he was worried that the animals would perish if they weren’t found.

Thus, Hamadek commanded the animals into the woods for the first time. He took them further and further into the woods, all the while searching for the missing ones. He came to a brook and left the animals to drink water. There was a cliff standing over the brook that was high enough to oversee the whole wood. ‘I will have to climb it to catch any sign of the cattle and also to find the way towards home, he thought. He had come far enough and worried getting lost. After a tiresome effort, he climbed the cliff and stood up and searched the wood, scanning every direction. There was no sign of his cattle but what he saw startled him. He was looking at a rocky hill, about a kilometer away from where he stood. Built into the hill was a triangular cave, and from inside it, came a brilliant green light, glistening and glittering even in broad daylight. Hamadek decided that it must be another person from the other side of the wood, another shepherd just like him probably, and who may know a clue about his lost animals. He quickly descended and began taking quick steps in the direction of the cave. In the process,  he left his cattle there to graze at the brook, deciding to return to them after he had reached the cave.

2. Inside The Cave

It took him much more time than expected, so he ran and ran, all the while being very careful not to slip as there was no pathway which implied that this wasn’t a place frequented by any human being. At last, Hamadek reached the cave, panting and breathing heavily. There stood the triangular cave, filled with the unusual green light which glittered and reflected inside it. A sudden rush of fear surged through Hamadek’s body, as he anticipated the unknown that awaited him inside the cave.  He thought of calling aloud in the hope that if there was a human, he would come out, but decided against it. He was afraid to go in but gathered his strength and forced himself in. Upon entering the cave, Hamadek found that it was a long tunnel and the light came from farther down the tunnel.

 There was no sign of any person, nothing that indicated the presence of a human, nor any familiar sound that could embolden and raise his spirits. It was eerily silent inside,  but intensely it by the green light. He went farther in until he came to an abrupt stop. The cave here widened, and the tunnel ended. Hamadek gasped at what he saw in front of him. The green light was coming from a rock that was on the floor. The green rock, slightly bigger than the palm was emitting all the light that lit up the cave. He was dumbfounded! ‘I have never seen such as thing in my life, he thought. All of a sudden, the fear and unease he felt before vanished, and was l replaced by curiosity. Hamadek abruptly reached out, stooped, and touched the rock.