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The role of the professionally trained poet was to defend the tribe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s honor, articulate its identity, and hold verbal duels with other tribes. The poet, or sha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ir<\/i>, able to craft and perform verbal legerdemains was thought to possess magical powers and was highly regarded for his talent.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

sha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ir<\/i> : somebody with a sense of the unseen<\/p>\n

From Of Poets, Prophets, and Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The role of the professionally trained poet was to defend the tribe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s honor, articulate its identity, and hold verbal duels with other tribes. The poet, or sha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ir, able to craft and perform verbal legerdemains...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11807,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/11807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}