Zindae (1202 - 1237) was revolutionary political leader and a poet who demanded respect for uembians in the 1220's-1230's. Her struggle for equal rights began peaceful but ultimately ended in violence, eventually causing her death in 1237. Her poetry, dismissed by popular culture of the day, was kept by her inner circle and reprinted to be used in informational pamphlets later on. Almost 100 years after her death in 1334, the literary critic and famous author Auke Cival wrote a biography of Zindae's short life, using the evolution of her poetic style to show the passage of time. Today, she is considered one of the greatest poets of all time.
Early life
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Workhouses
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Artur Booptee
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Death
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Poetry
Her best known poem is the epic Foundation of the Earth, in which she quotes an earlier piece of Githmund Extiez, often resulting in confusion (two years before his death Cival called one passage in particular the most misquoted of all time much to his chagrin). The story surrounds a fictional island where slaves where treated so poorly they perished, causing slavemasters to to seek out slaves from the ocean. As they work to train animals and fish, some slavemasters turn on one another. Eventually their discord is broken by the emergence of King Gaiagara, who's love and rage decimate the island. Told in the traditional way of Gaiagara stories, Zindae utilized romantic literary devices to sharply contrast the brutality of the slavemasters rather than to showcase Gaiagara's dual nature. Here, Gaiagara is not a mythical revenge, but an allegory for the nature of life.
Legacy
"Uembian literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Zindae...yes, that is true. Modern literature all the world over owes her a debt."