Stories
the narratives it tells itself
The hymn of the cosmic man.
The universe made from a primal being's sacrifice — society and cosmos cut from one body.
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The Rigveda.
The oldest religious text still in ritual use: hymns to Agni, Indra, and the dawn, carried mouth to mouth with checksum-grade fidelity for a thousand years before writing.
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