Member of the Village Council Oath

Night gathers, and it's the young Wisdom's fault. She didn't hear this when she Listened to the Wind, and if she did, she didn't tell us. I shall take no wife, because the Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die arguing with the Women's Circle. I am the pitchfork in the darkness. I am the watcher over the crops. I am the fire that heats the room, the light that lights the pipe, the rooster that wakes the sleepers, the wall that guards the the sheep from wolves. I pledge my life and honor to the Village Council, for this meeting, and for all meetings to come. Now, about that boy Mat…