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by balsam 1180 days ago
According to eternally recurring themes in myth-legend-history the next one in the sequence is: the engineer/developer/artist in the arena.

From the Aesir/Vanir, the Titans/Olympians to the French & Russian revolutions.

“The ultimate structure of the myth, then, is that the three estates of Proto-Indo-European society were fused only after a war between the first two against the third...”

(The third being not those who engage in (corporate) warfare or (rhetorical) magic, but those who working with concrete stuff (modern day fertility cults))

From the wikipedia article on the aesir-vanir war.

For the decentralized subculture, perhaps “the persons above the arena”

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Those above the High Table, so to speak.