Re: My languages
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 29, 2001, 18:04 |
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Steg Belsky wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:45:50 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>> Oh, that's cool! Any reason why smiths are considered Divine?
>Possibly because they create?
>
Not only that. They took stuff that fell from the heavens (meteoric iron),
did various mysterious things to it, and created...weapons. Smiths were
highly regarded in ancient Indonesia, e.g.; the _kris_ (ceremonial daggers)
they made were considered especially powerful.