Carrying the Law
The responsibility of initiated persons to maintain the Law.
Those who receive sacred knowledge become responsible for its maintenance and proper transmission. Carrying the Law means living by it, protecting it, and passing it to the next generation intact. This is the highest responsibility.
We carry the Law for those who came before and those who come after.
Law carriers form the backbone of cultural continuity.
Oral Tradition
Written about in
- What Aboriginal tradition says about elders and knowledge
Those who receive the Law become responsible for keeping it intact and handing it on. The obligation points in both directions — to the people who gave it and to those not yet born.