Our third masculine power is the Power to Know, Discover, and Do. The Sage Power.

This Masculine Power is the cornerstone of every civilization. Men have a talent for learning things, knowing things, organizing, recording, and using that knowledge productively in a way that is uniquely masculine. From the earliest beginnings of tool-using culture, the man who knew how to make fire, tie knots, and recognize a good game trail when he saw it was highly valued. But it didn't stop there. To our paleolithic forebears the Power to Know was the basis of all magic and technology. Before writing, when our ancestors were reliant on oral history for every scrap of their knowledge base, the Power to Know was, quite literally, the basis for our entire culture.

Without a way of permanently recording the information, for 100,000 years the only way for one generation to communicate to the next generation was to preserve it within the minds and memories of the elders of the tribe (men and women). If invaders came through, killed off the elderly after they disposed of the warriors, then the women and children who remained would be utterly bereft from their history and knowledge base.

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