Status in an honor culture, ironically, seems to be about how much you can cheat 🤔
The gods are seen to favor you in proportion to how much cheating they let you get away with.
This is a big theme in the Mahabharata. 90% of the cheating in it is by the god-favored ‘good guys’.
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Feels like a good subject for a comparative lit phd. If the pattern is in 2 unrelated mythologies it’s probably universal like the hero’s journey 🤓
