#FUCK the way the image of all the cultures connected was each culture's god/highest principle glyph from a different angle

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Themes of Chants of Sennaar:

You can learn a lot about a language just by paying attention to context clues and patterns

Languages have different grammatical structures and ways of expressing things, especially plurals and ways for the speakers of the language to refer to in groups vs. out groups

Cross-cultural communication is good and can help solve problems by sharing or trading knowledge and resources

Xenophobia is a powerful tool that those in power will use to keep people divided and weak and trying to overcome it will be met with resistance and violence