The Role of the Poets

Rituals reflect changes in society at the time, to reflect ongoing historical circumstances. The role of poets had a very important role to play in both maintaining and up dating the ritual,. myth, the story, the song. And here it seems to indicate that individuality, to some extent, is more so in the realm of the althy - people who can afford to establish new rituals of their own design. One one cannot defy the gods. If the gods give you a vision, nobody can really stand in the way of that vision.