lovely work!
and it brought the most peculiar insight into a possible original basis for the sword-drawn-from-rock image (a very powerful image): the man who could smelt metal from ore AND forge that into swords.
THAT ability was revolutionary, and ended (along with agriculture) the stone age.
THAT man, given a bit of carisma and power-lust would SURELY be king.
Remember the times before the sword.
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