Interchapter Query: Chapter 6 - 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
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Interchapter Query: Chapter 6
The following note was originally included in Chapter 6 with a note that it was intended for Chapter 10. Can you help us work it into Chapter 10’s body?
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Note From Chapter 6
The first sacred storehouses were to protect the community’s food and seed, and animals may have been first domesticated in the process of penning them up to have them on hand for sacrifices at the communal feasts which demarcated archaic calendars. Communal festivals accordingly became the paramount occasions for distributing all forms of the social surplus—gifts, taxes, and ultimately commercial products at fairs.
