> Here, have a puppet show!
Here's a thought on Puppet Shows and Low Entertainers
How do the children learn the myths. They attend the public ceremonies.
But that's not enough. Actually the Low Entertainers "perform" the myths in a non-magical and therefore non-dangerous fashion.
Most Heortlings think that this is entertainment. But those that control the stories control the _Religion_ and the _Magic_ and the _Law_.
So stepping back to my earlier non-magical statement, it should read non-otherworld-magical fashion.
As Broyan and Kallyr and the other Argraths create new stories, the Low Entertainers take their new and vastly entertaining stories and add them to their repetoire and later blen them with the earlier stories. The next generation now have new myths.
The next generation will start to bring in their changed myths after only, say 10 years. There is still a long way to go in the Hero Wars.
And 'cos the Heortlings _believe_ that it is _only_ entertainment, the Lunars never cotton on to this subversive mythmaking.
regards,
Charles
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