Parétia fáris sánciumque in Savína

General introduction

Publishing general information of any kind in written form has a long history in Tarrabaenian culture. It was adopted in the early years of the Era of the Earth, when the Tarrabaenians migrated into the lands of the Duiniken and got acquanted with the Duinikens habit of etching kings proclamations or declarations into natural stones of cliffs.

While Duiniken etchings or inscriptions tend to be monumental in nature, probably as they were the words of the king and represented his status and power, Tarrabaenian governmental inscriptions tend to be more pragmatic in nature. The parétia fáris sánciumque is a place of public display for a religious laws or documentation of religious acts and is placed at the northern side of the Platia Vítumália in Savína.

Structure and history

Like all parétia that exist in Tarrabaenia, this one is placed by a major road leading up to the temple district of the city in an east-west direction. This fashion is probably connected to the course of the sun and the places where it rises and sets on the days of the equinoxes. All parétié face south to be exposed to the sun during the day. Unlike other texts on public display, the parétié for religious documentation must not carry the texts displayed there on metal plates but rather on cut stone slabs.

Being the capital, the parétia fáris sánciumque of Savína is rather long, stretching about two Tarrabaenian miles from the Corus caterválius in the West to the Óla dínária in the East. All cults which do keep records for public display in Savína do so here on this parétia. It is a priceless monument to the history of the city, to religion, to customs and to linguistics, documenting religious events, participants, sacrifices and donations as well as the language current at the time to a certain degree. The individual stone slabs were originally attached chronologically from West to East. At a certain point in time though, the parétia was filled up and it was extended to the West. Also, as the inscriptions experience no maintenance, after a while some that have become too damaged or otherwise unreadable get replaced with current ones.

For a while this gave the parétia a rather sketchy appearance, as different sizes of new stone slabs were added continuously and then, when one was replaced, it got replaced by a slab of different size. It was only about 150 years ago, that an agreement was made to keep new additions at a uniform size.

Like all parétia in Tarrabaenia, the parétia fáris sánciumque of Savína is one continuous wall as divine law forbids the words of or for the divine to be separated in any way. This makes the parétia fáris sánciumque in Savína the longest continuous structure within any Tarrabaenian city, except city walls, canals or roads.

Significance

The parétia fáris sánciumque in Savína is important, as it documents all rules and laws connected to religion. Religion still plays a major role in Tarrabaenias day to day life on all levels - personal or political. Thus what is written on the parétia is consulted frequently in a variety of situations by people of all strata of society. Generals seek guidance in military questions, commoners enquire about how and what to sacrifice on special occasions and the upper class makes sure their donations and building endeavours go right and according to the sacred laws.

In newer times, with the burgeoning of academic endeavours and the rising interest in ones own culture and traditions with the intellectual movement called íversinia nótra, the parétié in all of Tarrabaenias provincial capitals and Savína have become an important source of wisdom and information for the scholars indulging in such topics as history, religion and language, as some of the language used in the inscription bears regional dialect or historical forms of grammar or vocabulary, that has become obsolete or special forms of language, that are exclusive to religious nomenclature or codifying of religious rules and laws.