Society
The nagas live in giant cities. All naga cities have a word grazew at the end of their names, so grazew seem to mean city in the old naga language. All cities are formed around a heart tower, because heart towers are religious and political center of the naga society. The largest city of all is Hatengrazew, where main characters of The Bird That Drinks Tears such as Ryun Pei, Samo Pei, Galotec and Viass Markerow come from. However, each naga cities are independent and Hatengrazew holds no direct influence over other cities.
The women rule the naga society. This may be because the women and the men have lost their gap of physical ability through the power that the heart extraction provides and men lost their role as a physical muscle that protect women and children. So, the women are classified as higher beings, and the men's somewhat a lower form of nagas.
All nagas do not recognize and acknowledge the concept of father. They know that such thing exists, but they believe that the sperm men give women is just like every other ingredient a woman needs to birth a child, such as food, water and air. They think it is the mother who is important, and are not very interested in who the father is in the first place.
Read more about this topic: Naga (The Bird Series)
Famous quotes containing the word society:
“I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;
I am not up to small deceit, or any sinful games;
And I’ll tell in simple language what I know about the row
That broke up our society upon the Stanislow.
But first I would remark, that it is not a proper plan
For any scientific man to whale his fellow-man,”
—Bret Harte (1836–1902)
“Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)