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They can encode numbers and recipes or algorithms. It’s been found that story can be allegorical memory devices which embed deeper knowledge when parsed. So the same thing that sounds like a story can reference math and other practical things.



An example of memory device is the lukasa which was used in north Congo a few centuries ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukasa_(Luba)




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