Award of the Elephants Heart

Awarded to Caryn of Cynnabar (modernly known as Caryn Finkelman)

By the Barony of Cynnabar on 2017-08-09

See the virtue of Caryn of Cynnabar. Every day she plows the fields, planting and weeding. Even when others fail to lend a hand, her devotion inspires the heavens and the earth to respond.

How do we know this is true? The elephants come down from the mountains to plow the furrows for her; in the spring, you can see them line up and use their tusks to dig the earth. In the summer, the crows and magpies flock down to pull up the weeds with their beaks. Nature itself approves of her righteous attitude.

How much more then ought We to praise her in the ears of Our populace and grant unto her Our Award of the Elephant’s Heart.

Let none countermand Our words.

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Based on an excerpt from Èrshísì Xiào [The Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety], attributed to Guo Jujing and written during the Yuan Dynasty (c. 1260 - 1368).

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