Thanks for the gloss on African folktales. But how do you square your interpretation of the snake and heron story with the contradicting (or at least tangential) interpretation that's within the tale itself?
"For so it always has been - if you see the dust of a fight rising, you will know that a kindness is being repaid!"
The gloominess suggested by Eliezer seems harder to dismiss in light of this line.
Eliezer:
On another note, amateur cultural interpretation is one of the web's great scourges. Give me a characteristic (A) and a society (B)... (read more)
frelkins:
Thanks for the gloss on African folktales. But how do you square your interpretation of the snake and heron story with the contradicting (or at least tangential) interpretation that's within the tale itself?
"For so it always has been - if you see the dust of a fight rising, you will know that a kindness is being repaid!"
The gloominess suggested by Eliezer seems harder to dismiss in light of this line.
Eliezer:
On another note, amateur cultural interpretation is one of the web's great scourges. Give me a characteristic (A) and a society (B)... (read more)