Their afterlife is about horses, their creation myth is about horses, their justification for violence is about horses, they don’t like the sea because horses, the important pregnancy ritual is about horses, they have sex outside ‘like horses’, their concept of strength and honour are about being able to ride a horse; you can drag nuances out if you insist (or infer them in, more like) but you can’t escape that the entire culture is reducible to one principle: horses.

Show me a horse culture that wasn’t obsessed with horses. Or a cattle-herding culture that didn’t obsess about cows. Or an agricultural society that wasn’t obsessed with the weather. 

I’m thinking this is starting to fall into Reality is Unrealistic territory. 

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