Legends depend on the articulateness of a given Folk. If they were too primitive, any cataclysm would barely be recalled. In degree, how short a story of the folklore is, the more primordial it is. The trees and rocks, apes and Sasquatches left no fairytales, because they were not observant, because they had no words with which to make comments. Legends begin with folk gossips, comments on significant incidents. At first they are crudely inarticulate, just as the bare mention in the Bible of what actually took millions of years: that God created the world in six days. Legends from which Mythologies were elaborately created, as in ancient Greece and India, reveal, besides the tragedies themselves, in what degree these peoples were affected by them. It is the Mythologies of the people that motivate them to create their Civilizations. Therefore, people who do not comment, compliment, discuss, extol, or differentiate between the Great and the Worthless, are dead people who do not matter. It is the reactability of people that makes them present in the world.

This is another illustration from my tragedy Rege! Rege! (the sound a Polish frog makes). Ludola is the mute blacksmith whose tongue was torn out to prevent him from teaching the ancient Po Gan (After the diluvial Exile) beliefs.

Ludola's function was to forge the souls for the newlyborn on his anvil and to repair the rusted, long unused ones of the elderly. Thus, he learns all about the misfortunes of his nation, but is unable to convey what he learns, for he cannot talk. However, his son Krak presses his ear to his father's chest and learns what passes over the anvil. This inspires Krak to alter matters accordingly.

The name Ludola, developed from ancient Protong Lud Dola, means People's Fate. Although this little man is an invention of mine, he has the likeness of a typical, shy, hardworking father, the guardian of all in the village. He is pictured here in one of the caves of Ojców, located near Kraków, pumping his bellow, adding more urgency to his heart's flame.

The entire myth about Krak, the legendary founder of Kraków, is of my invention.