An analogy I sometimes use is that Ugg uses a gourd to carry water from a spring to his nearby cave. Occasionally, it is inevitable that some of the water will spill onto the ground. Eventually, Ugg notices that his spilled water looks a lot like what happens after a rainstorm - puddles, little rivulets and so on. Not knowing anything about evaporation and condensation and vapor pressures, Ugg reaches inaccurate but not unreasonable conclusion that there is someone living in the sky with a really, REALLY big gourd that he sometimes spills. Based on his experiences, Ugg further reasons that Sky Gourd Man is kind of moody - sometimes he spills just a little water and doesn't seem to mind. Sometimes he drops the whole gourd full and gets really, really angry about it. Ugg starts to wonder if there might be a way to keep SGM happy...
And the rest, as they say, is thousands of years of oppression and intellectual tyranny.
Boru
And the rest, as they say, is thousands of years of oppression and intellectual tyranny.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
