00:00:17.240We all start with a lot of that as our default, and that's not a wrong place to be.
00:00:22.820But when you realize you are there, it's always valuable to view it with fresh eyes.
00:00:27.280I don't believe that a person without the need to make this conform to a Dumazilian structuring of Aryan society would take that as the fundamental meaning of this poem.
00:00:42.120Once Dumazil laid that out, we can see obvious parallels that make sense in that.
00:00:48.000but a fair-minded reading of this if you didn't already have the preconception especially with
00:00:52.640the naming of all of the couples involved and their children as this progresses is clearly a
00:00:58.720process over the course of time it's not just a promethean stealing of divine and and i think that
00:01:05.680that's part of a similar concept but i think the fundamentals are really different stealing from
00:01:10.320the gods and like transgressing by giving it to mortals is very different than the way this story
00:01:16.560is laid out. And one of the beauties in this is it's not like, hey, I'm trafficking stolen goods
00:01:22.440to you, do whatever you want with it. It is a generational over the course of time, tutoring,
00:01:29.020teaching and instructing and a process. They don't go from knuckle draggers to space in
00:01:36.680because they got this magic thing. No, over time, they develop and they mature and they evolve and
00:01:43.640they become and they learn and they grow. And you see that throughout this, the generational
00:01:49.300nature of it, the process of it is self-evident, I think, to any fair reading of it. So I think
00:01:55.600that's important to bear in mind as we go through it.