<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 2:47 PM, De'vID <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" target="_blank">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 12 September 2017 at 20:42, qurgh lungqIj <<a href="mailto:qurgh@wizage.net">qurgh@wizage.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Michael Roney, Jr. <<a href="mailto:nahqun@gmail.com">nahqun@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> No, him pointing to the light was public knowledge.<br>
>> He did so in public, in front of everyone, which is why people were<br>
>> motivated to travel to that light and build a monastery.<br>
>> That he made the first betleH out of hair and lava was the big secret.<br>
>><br>
>> vaHbo' jIb je lo' qeylIS.<br>
><br>
> Ahh. HIvqa' veqlargh! I thought it was common knowledge that he made the<br>
> first batleth in that way. I guess it was just common knowledge that he made<br>
> it in general, although saying he used hair and lava doesn't actually<br>
> explain how he made it!<br>
<br>
</span>pegh'a'? paq'batlhDaq lutvam laDlaH vay' jay'.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, all the texts of the paq'batlh we have (and all the things we know about Klingon after TKD) post-date the arrival of the clone of Kahless, when the story was okay to make public. Maybe in olden times the priests just left that part out with a "[...n lines missing...]" and a shrug. (It wouldn't be the worst explanation a sci-fi story has used to cover up plot holes.)<br></div></div><br></div></div>