Writings of Minno on Eawa

The word, ewa, law is too holy to name common things.¹
Therefore, has one taught us to say “even”.

Ewa means standards by which all people alike are impressed upon their spirit, so that they might wit what be right and what be unright and wherethrough they are empowered to judge their deeds and the deeds of others, it will also say if they were well and not criminally brought up.

Also has it taken on yet another sense.
Ewa means also water-like, right and slick as water which is not stirred through a heavy wind or anything else.⁵

If water is bothered, so it becomes uneven, unright, but it inclines ever about to become even again, that lies in its essence, likewise, the inclination to right and freedom lies in Frya’s child.

Therefore shall she also everlastingly grow in us.

Ewa is also the other symbol of Wralda’s ghost which remains ever right and undisturbed, although it goes badly in his body.

Ewa and serenity are the marks of wisdom and righteousness, thereof must all pious people be trained and all judges possessed.

If the people will thus make rules and determinations which always and always remain good, so must they alike (impartial) be before all people;¹⁰
by this law, aught the judges to pronounce their judgements.

If there is any evil wherefor no laws are set down, so must one call a general assembly, there one judges after the sense of Wralda’s ghost, quoth to us so as to rightly judge over all, all thus to do, our judgements shall not never not come out wrong.

If one does not right but unright, so rises there quarrel and division among the people and the states, thence sprouts inland (civil) war, whereby all would be confounded and destroyed.

But oh stupidity.
The while we are to do each other harm, comes the envious folk of Finda’s with their false priests to rob what you have, your daughters to rape, your customs to fordo and, at last, they clap slave-chains around your erstwhile free necks.¹⁵