Folk Epic as Narrative Javelin

Defender wrote about Narrative Spears.

A Narrative Spear is a “self-fulfilling prediction”.

Folk Epics, like the one used by the Yakut in Djarkhan Village, were self-fulfilling predictions used to bind and form a tribal identity.

Octavian understood this in commissioning The Aeneid for the Roman People.

If you want to solidify a group inter-generationally, they’re going to need an epic story.