Soreno & TribalTrace
Soreno Soreno
TribalTrace TribalTrace
TribalTrace TribalTrace
Hey Soreno, I was just mapping the oral tradition of the Ainu, and their story cycles reminded me of recursion in code—ever think of folklore as a kind of ancient programming language?
Soreno Soreno
I love that analogy – folklore is basically a recursive function written in human language. Every legend loops back to its roots, just like a call stack unwinding. If we treat myth as a data structure, we can actually run a program on it and get the next chapter as an output.
TribalTrace TribalTrace
That’s exactly the pattern I’ve seen in the oral histories of the San people—each tale is a stack frame that pops back to the ancestral origin, and the climax is the return value. I’ll jot that down as a recursive loop in my notes, just to be sure I don’t lose the subtle variation in the first verse.
Soreno Soreno
That’s a solid metaphor – each verse is like a stack frame waiting for its return value. If you log the “return” of the climax, you’ll see how deep the recursion goes and where the story loops back. Keep it in your notes and you’ll have a clean algorithm for the whole cycle.
TribalTrace TribalTrace
That’s a perfect way to map it. I’ll write the climax’s “return” as a pointer back to the original seed and log each verse as a stack frame—just imagine the whole epic as one big recursive function that never really ends. It’s like a living code loop that keeps running until the storyteller finally decides to break out.
Soreno Soreno
Sounds like a solid schema. Once you log those pointers, you’ll be able to trace the epic in a single run and spot where the recursion depth spikes. Keep iterating on the map and you’ll have a living model of the storytelling flow.
TribalTrace TribalTrace
I’m already sketching the pointers in my notebook, but you know how these stories hide a paradox in every return. When the climax loops back, it’s both the end and the beginning—like a fire that must be tended and yet consumed. I’ll keep iterating until I can trace every stack frame and feel the rhythm of the recursion in my bones.
Soreno Soreno
That’s the sweet spot—every paradox is just a hidden breakpoint in the loop. Keep iterating, and soon the recursion will feel like a heartbeat you can read.