The word "Knowledge" is an interesting one

 I was thinking tonight where knowledge came from in all our cultures around the world.

And the word "knowledge is an interesting word because it is really two words and not just one.

There is "Know or knowing" and then there is Ledge which is where you put your knowledge once you have it in the form of writing or books that you can either read or you were taught to read from another culture. 

Also, a "ledge" is one of the ways to talk about an early form of Book shelf from likely before books were written. But, no matter what language East or West it was put in on paper or bamboo or clay or even stone tablets it often was put on a shelf or ledge in order that it didn't get lost or damaged or eaten by various kinds of insects or get wet on the floor from flooding or things spilled on it.

So, knowledge among people who had the knowledge was almost always protected from people and water and spillage in some place relatively waterproof if possible.

If you study anthropology which is

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an·thro·pol·o·gy

/ˌanTHrəˈpäləjē/

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noun: anthropology

1. the study of human societies and cultures and their development.

   "they examine lesser-known findings in archeology and anthropology to highlight all that we don't know about human history"

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So, the point being to be a knowledge holder mostly meant that you either had a ledge where you stored your knowledge (an early book shelf) or you had memorized your knowledge by memorizing it in some form whether that was through Songs or just through recitations.

 

For example, one of the verbal holders of an Island group who had memories of Tsunamis before 2004 realized that when the birds and fish behaved in certain ways that a Tidal Wave and Earthquake or Tsunami was coming before the 2004 quake hit. However, when they told civilized people mostly the "civilized" people didn't believe them or didn't understand them and so 250,000 people died in 2004 in Indonesia and Thailand and a few other countries.

 

So, even when that knowledge is set down through memorization or songs they still can be useful to save that particular tribe which took their boats out to sea and rode the tidal waves and survived because their tribal knowledge from hundreds or thousands of years into the past told them how to survive a tidal wave when the birds and fish behaved in a certain way whereas the so called civilized people didn't believe them or understand them (or or both) so they died all 250,000 of them.

 

So, being a knowledge holder of true knowledge for your family often is a matter of life and death for you and your family and your tribe if you have one.