🚀 go-pugleaf

This is in reply to Ron Boutwell who commented on my
KT/KM post question about polytheistic societies, etc.

I guess I was a little too vague in that reference, my
real intent was to involve such religions as Hindu (where
there are three primary incarnates of the "supreme" deity,
and your family tradition dictates which of the three you
choose to revere as the "senior" entity.  They followers
usually all use the Bhagavad Gita as a VSL, so that would
not, in theory present a problem.

What I really meant was a potential problem was the case
where a culture had NO written language, thus could not
have a volume considered sacred for an oath.  An excellent
example of this would be Navajo.  First, if you grant that
Native Americans practicing their native religion believe
in one "Great Spirit," we get past that part of the criteria.

However, unless they have created an alphabet in the last
50 years or so, there is no written form of the Navajo
language (or a number of other tribes either) which is one
of the primary reasons they were selected as radio talkers
during WWII - because NO German or Japanese would ever be
able to study the language and even if they did, the talkers
themselves created new words for things in the Army that the
original language could not accommodate.

So, if we have a culture whose religion is apparently sufficiently
in line with Masonic requirements, how do we satisfy the second
criterion for a VSL in this (or similar) case where there is
NO WRITTEN FORM of the language?

It is more an academic question intended to provoke some thought
into an ages old requirement and ritual.

Pax, Fratre.
Bill