[[pie-culture]] | [[pie-lang]] [[languages]] (contains [[texts]]) --- ## Topics > **Key Terms** > [[*wekwos]] - Being an oral culture (i.e. not text based) , speech was important to the PIEs and see as powerful. It could *compel*, it could effect the social (and physical?) worlds. Almost like magic. see [[zimmer-s2017]], satyakriya, and [[watkins1995]]. ## Rough Categorization || -|- orality | `+` situation | = [[sayings]] `+` intention | = [[promise]] `+` writing | = [[textuality]] `+` combat | = [[combat-orality]] `+` devices & [[poets-bards]] | = [[poetics]] "song" `+` story = | = [[▲Narratives]] `+` [[sacredness-divinity]] | = [[sacred-orality]] `+` [[buck-3-animals]] | = [[language-of-birds]] [[sacred-orality]] `+` [[promise]] | = [[sacred-promise]] [[poetics]] `+` length & formulas | = [[epic]] `+` contemporary | = [[contemporary-compositions]] ## Biblio [[sick1996]] [[elmer2012]]ch2 [[melia1979]] [[davidson-o1985]]p103-16 [[cardona1990]] [[nagy-g1992-homeric]]p44-51 [[lyle2006-narrative]] [[rolinson2019-05-23]] [[rolinson2019-08-19]] [[rolinson2020-02-22]] [[nagy-j1997]]