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For Aeneas, Jiang says the pledge of love is merely a word; the real obligation is his oath and loyalty to the gods.
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Oath
Because herding is volatile and boom-bust, pastoralists institutionalized loans, obligations, oath contracts, and fluid status rather than fixed bureaucratic slavery.
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Because herding is volatile and boom-bust, pastoralists institutionalized loans, obligations, oath contracts, and fluid status rather than fixed bureaucratic slavery.
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"...it's a word, it's nothing, all right? What matters is your oath to the gods."
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"What matters is your loyalty to the gods. All right, all right, keep going."
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"So cattle and sheep herds can grow rapidly with little luck. Vulnerable to bad weather and theft, they can also decline rapidly. Herding was..."
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"...Proto -Indo -European included a vocabulary about verbal contracts bound by oaths used in later religious rituals to subside the obligations between the weak..."
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"...host is a Christian. The host institution extended the protections of oath -bound obligations to new social groups. An Indo -European speaking patron could..."
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"...say. And I called the priests and made them take an oath to do as they had promised. I also shook out the folds..."
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"...and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God,"
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"...of the moribund, the warrior brotherhood of young men bound by oath to one another and to their ancestors during a ritually mandated raid..."
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"...by getting people to follow you and then you swear blood oaths to each other and you also maybe have sex with each other..."
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"...say a church council have the right to commit itself by oath to a certain unultimal doctrine in order to secure perpetual partnership over..."
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"...in the worship of God. And so, he said, with an oath God promised this land to Abraham and his seed after him forever."
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"...God. This is the kingdom of heaven. He said, with an oath, God promised this land to Abraham and his seed after him forever...."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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