Wortlore
From The Anglish Moot
Wortlore is the learning and knowledge about worts. It is an arm of lifelore that holds the knowledge anent the growth, feeding, begetting and sicknesses of worts.
As with other kinds of life in lifelore, wort life can be read from unalike outlooks, from the bit lifelore(molecular biology) , kingrowth (genetics) and lifestufflore(biochemistry) through lifebits (organelles), liferoomlore (cell biology),makeup (wort)s (anatomy), befolkings (population) of worts. At each of these lores, a wortlorester might be busy with the naming,(makeup), or inner workings (physiology) of worts.
Long ago, wortlore was for all living beings that were not thought to be wights. Some of these "wort-like" living beings were mushroomkind (fungi) (learned about in shroomlore (mycology),smallkind (bacteria) and nearlifekind (virus) (learned about in littlelifelore), and stone grass (algae) (stonegrasslore). Most stonegrass, mushroomkinds, and littlekinds (bacteria and viruses together) are no longer thought of to be in the wort kingdom. However, heed is still given to them by wortloresters, and smallkinds, mushroomkinds, and stonegrass are sometimes learned about in first wortlore courses.
So why learn about worts? Worts make up a great deal of life on earth. They make the sourstuff, food, and healers that lets higher life kinds to live. Worts also soak in CO2, a greenhouse wind, through light trapping. A good understanding of worts is need to the aftertide of mankind as it lets us to:
- Feed the world
- Understand the ground work of life
- Make Healers (medicine)
- Understand earthly shifts
Almost all of the food we eat comes from worts, either straight from bloomyield (fruit) and greens (vegetables), or crabwise through livestock, which reckon on worts for fodder. In other words, worts are at the ground of nearly all food roadss (chains), or what earthloresters call the first floor (wortlore). Understanding how worts make the food we eat is therefore needed to feed the world and give food trust for our offspring to come, like through wort breeding. Not all worts are good to mankind, weeds are a worry in acrework (agriculture) and wortlore gives some of the needed learning to understand how to lessen their thrust. Folkwortlore is the lore of this and other bonds between worts and mankind.
In many unalike ways, worts are a bit like the 'miners canary', awaking us to big shifts in our world. Along with it's lore, plants are highly worthy as funtools (recreation) for a great deal of folks who delight in yarding (gardening), yardwork (horticulture) and food handles (uses) of worts every day.
