[[learned-classes]] + They who utilize [[poetics]] - The poet himself is one who ‘forges’ the words (PIE `tekt-`) - Av. `vačas-tašti-` "the forging of words" - Skt. RV 5.2.11 `etáṃ stómaṃ...ráthaṃ ná atakṣam` "I have crafted this song like a chariot" - Grk. Pi. P. 3.113 `epéōn ... téktones` "the forgers of words" - The poet "weaves" them into a "garment" (PIE `teks-`; Lat. `textus`) - The poet "harnesses" his song of praise like a chariot: - Grk. `enkṓmion zeũksai mélos` [Pi. Nem. 1.7] - Skt. `yujé...bráhma` [RV 10.13.1] - `dochter` ## By Branch Indic. [[rsis]] ## Ultimate Poet > "[In the *Young Avesta*] Zarathustra's role as first poet-sacrificer is mentioned frequently. [n10: compare {[[kellens1994]]:14n6}. In Greek literature the notion of the divinely inspired "ultimate poet" is seen in the case of both Homer and Hesiod, see {[[nagy1979]]:[5-6](https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/introduction-a-word-on-assumptions-methods-results/)}: "...the references made by an archaic poem to its composer, or 'author', are not so much a personal attempt by the poet to identify himself but rather a formal reflection of the poetry upon its own importance: the archaic poem presents itself retrospecively as something transmitted by the ultimate poet."]" {[[skjaervo2003]]:161 edited}.