The thing is, in a lot of cases, contradictions are all true. There is very little objective reality where the world is concerned, at least mythically speaking. Every clan, and certainly every tribe, has its own closely guarded secrets and stories which are, to them, perfectly true.
So yes, our clan knows a ritual requiring us to plant grain a certain way, and the neighbors are just weird because they don't. The clan endures, and you can only really trust our people and our priests. They will provide you all the knowledge and information you need, why do you look for answers elsewhere?
All this is a roundabout way of saying, just because it looks contradictory doesn't mean that both sets of fact aren't equally valid.
On Nov 27, 2012, at 1:47 PM, "michaelL" <michaelalewis25_at_...> wrote:
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