534a

And after lunch all frogs form a big Band! They dance and play around the village...

533c

Instead of Squid ink, "Pesto" is served, while "Trenette" replace "Linguine". Rice is garbed in RED.

533b

The funeral march sad tunes go for joy: it is Wedding March!

533a

Hurrah! The funeral party becomes Frogs' celebration...

All Is Well

532c

Huu هو Hurrah!

532b

You will earn enough to fill this village with chocolate!

532a

You will draw our tiles and our tombstones.

531c

And you are appointed to the Amir.

531b

Your second bag of gold, as promised.

531a

A poem on a portal is a golden key.

Poetry Is Stronger than Stone

530c

We are NOT literalists.

530b

And although you have been asked for a marble key, your work is accepted.

530a

Cartoons for tiles with Rumi's poetry about opening! They will run around the portal of the Islamic Zoo.
The Persian of the poem (F., V, 10-11) is HERE.

529c

I arrive from your workshop. I am pleased you left it open for us to see the cartoons.

529b

The old one gave up everything and left for Mecca.

529a

Mullah Frögüddin, I presume. I am Shaykha Kawthara, the new Vizir.

Inner Wonders

527c

Of course it was there. I found my key.

528b

All that I need is inner certainty. Where else could it be?

528a

The power of the heart! Isn't it there where the key to my gold was hidden?

527c

And yet, it is power that makes me real. Power from within.

527b

How could I lose all my keys?
Do I fear success? Power??

527a

While at a crossroads between the village's Tavern and Mosque...

Morning Has Broken

Morning Has Broken!

526c

...The Vizir arrives!

526b

Allahu Akbar لله أكبر God is Greatest
La ilaha ill Allah لا إله إلا الل There is no god but God

526a

And while the Faithfuls flock to the Mosque...

525c

الصلاة خير من النوم الصلاة
(Prayer is better than sleep...prayer)

525b

حي على الصلاة Come to prayer!
حي على الفلاح Come to success!!

525a

A doom and gloomy Dawn breaks on our Frogs Pond...

Practical Matters

524c

There will be "Linguine al nero di seppia" and "Arroz Negro". There will be wine aplenty. Let's make a sad day beautiful!
Oh my! We need new hats and robes.

524b

...We could ask Dawoud Kringle to compose a Funeral march on a country tune.
He is sooo talented! He can do it.

524a

I... I spoke as if Mullah Frögüddin were already dead!
Good planning requires that we leap into the atmosphere. Now, about the music...

523c

Definitely! It is music that makes funerals alive.
Dear Frögü was so fond of Country Music...Aah! Did I say: "Was"?!?

523b

Great idea! We shall book right after Frögü's funeral.
Do you think there should be music?

523a

Cheer up! Maybe Abdullah found the keys. Maybe Nuvoletta did not eat the cartoons. Maybe the Vizir will pardon him.
Maybe we could fly together to Singapore...

Planning Ahead

522c

Of course I love him: it is since many years that I am saving for his Funeral.
Masha'Allah! For a moment I thought you had no heart.

522b

Malaysia. I know a Naqshbandi there, he is in the Batik Business... Hey, Rosetta!?! Why are you crying?!?
Sob... Sob... Sob I love Mullah Frögü... I do not want him to die. Sob Sob Sob. Don't you love him?

522a

Whatever, soon we will be widows. Do you plan to remarry?
Maybe later. I would like to go to Australia first. What about you?

521c

Without the Safe's Key it will be nearly impossible to get the Gold back but perhaps we can sell the Sheep and pay for the Chocolate.
Perhaps...

521b

The Vizir will kill Abdullah (Mullah Frögü) because he can't open the workshop! And even if he could, the sheep Nuvoletta probably ate all the cartoons.
Probably... Sigh!

521a

It seems that our family is in the buzz again...
Yes, indeed.

Empty Pockets!

520c

... Then a Croakyfying Silence falls while Mullah Frögüddin searchs for his Key under the Street Lamps.

520b

WHERE IS MY KEY?

520a

Thus, for the third time that Croakyfying Scream shakes the starry Night at our frog's Pond...