She's getting more and more unhinged I love it
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/150464463

Ancient Japanese proverb.

A man is cutting wood in the forest and his axe falls into a lake. A goddess emerges from the lake holding a silver axe and a gold axe. She asks the man which axe belongs to him. He says neither of them are his. She praises him for his honesty and gives the man both axes as a reward.

Strange women lying in lakes distributing axes is no basis for a moral framework!

It's Greek, not Japanese.

It's also not a proverb.

He never got his steel axe back. That poor man returned home without firewood because gold is too soft to cut trees. He tried to sell the gold, but was attacked by robbers and didn't have a steel axe to defend himself. He died and his children froze to death the next winter. Arigatou Amaterasu-sama.

agreed. real ethics lie with the consensus of the people, not in some farcical aquatic ceremony. you can't claim to be the supreme arbiter of right and wrong just because some watery tart lobbed a hatchet at you.

But animal crossing said the gold axe is the most durable :(

Miriam: just stop that bickering like I care about that. Give me gold! Gimme-gimme-gimme!

I got it! I understood that reference.