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Once long ago, there was a high priest who sacrificed a goat everyday to his gods. One day the preist was about to sacrifce a goat and then he herd the goat begin to laugh. To this the preist asked "Goat, why do you laugh? Dont you know i am about to cut your throat?" to this the goat answerd " I laugh because, after 1000 years of dieing and being reincarnated as a goat i will be reincarnated as a man" Then the goat began to cry and the preist said "Goat, why do your cry" and the goat said "I cry for you, because after you die you will be reincarnated as a goat." And it was at that moment that the priest dropped to his knees and said "From this moment on i shall be the protecter of all goats"

Do you know the meaning of the story?