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"Why do you need Mythology and Literature? It will hardly let you sail a boat to safety during a storm. In times like these, where many starve every hand is better put to real work. Especially someone with your unique talents." The Sailor emphasized critically.
"As pragmatic as that sounds there are many noteworthy reasons to not only learn about the past but to learn the mythology of a place." Not so distantly, she had been as ignorant and obtuse as this sailor, only believing in the value of art as entertainment and history as instruction. Val had seen to the dissolution of that quite quickly.
"Power and control in a society, those who have it and those who don't are not only based in history but in story. Those with power beyond their individually earned skills and attributes contained it because they have been mythologized." Una copied from her mentor, his wide words sweeping from her tongue as easily as a mocking jay copied the song of its counterparts. "In Avanthal, the Icewatch wear coloured bands about their forearms. Those bands are not merely for the ease of communication of place and duties but are ritualized, mythologized. That band symbolizes their power, duty and incorruptibility. With that band they are more than themselves, they are a role. They would not hold such power without that band being mythologized."
The sailor looked less than convinced.
Una felt the overwhelming desire to instruct the Sailor in the ways of life and felt vehemently proud that one so young could outstrip one so grizzled. He knew the ways of the sea, perhaps as well as she did, she allowed for the possibility at least. But she was educated now, above such simple thinking.
x"As pragmatic as that sounds there are many noteworthy reasons to not only learn about the past but to learn the mythology of a place." Not so distantly, she had been as ignorant and obtuse as this sailor, only believing in the value of art as entertainment and history as instruction. Val had seen to the dissolution of that quite quickly.
"Power and control in a society, those who have it and those who don't are not only based in history but in story. Those with power beyond their individually earned skills and attributes contained it because they have been mythologized." Una copied from her mentor, his wide words sweeping from her tongue as easily as a mocking jay copied the song of its counterparts. "In Avanthal, the Icewatch wear coloured bands about their forearms. Those bands are not merely for the ease of communication of place and duties but are ritualized, mythologized. That band symbolizes their power, duty and incorruptibility. With that band they are more than themselves, they are a role. They would not hold such power without that band being mythologized."
The sailor looked less than convinced.
Una felt the overwhelming desire to instruct the Sailor in the ways of life and felt vehemently proud that one so young could outstrip one so grizzled. He knew the ways of the sea, perhaps as well as she did, she allowed for the possibility at least. But she was educated now, above such simple thinking.
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Interesting indeed. 
