Canons of Respect
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The Canons of Respect (Guśali Sa:unak) was the first known human legal code. It was issued under Nanuŋitera, paźiwa of Yenine, in -610.
According to the laws, the objects of respect were property, the paźiwa, the gods, and parents.
So long as one fulfilled the obligations of one's rank, there was no real possibility of acting with greed, arrogance, or excess. Brutality toward the lower orders, however, was a serious sin— though the law almost always allowed repentance to take a monetary form. (Rape and adultery were punished by requiring the offender to pay the woman's bride-price.)
As a sort of social safety valve, there was a yearly holiday (benśentin) on which all laws were reversed, and blasphemy, disorder, and insubordination ruled.
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