Culture of Zahava

Music
Music was a major part of everyday life in ancient Zahava and continues to be today. Many private and public events were accompanied by music, ranging from nightly dining parties to military parades, religious ceremonies, and funerals. For a person to be well at playing music it was believed they must have a good understanding of mathematics and knowledge as music was viewed as a manifestation of the cosmic order.

Some of the instruments used in traditional Zahavan music are the tuba, horns, flute, panpipes, lyre, lute, drums, and water organ, almost always accompanied by singing, either of poetry or special religious recitations set to a specific rhythm.

Music is often accompanied by dance, both for pleasure, such as dancing that occurs in taverns or at dinner parties, or as part of a ballet, and as part of certain ceremonies where the movements are very closely choreographed.

Literature
Zahavan literature is divided into distinct categories, religious text which often contains a series of sermons, or daily lessons which are often read by the head of the household to the family at dinner time. Other religious texts contain the directions on how to conduct specific religious ceremonies, what incantations, the proper prayers and prayer structure and what offerings should be used in a given ceremony.

Poetry, which is further broken down into popular, religious and secular poetry, includes the heroic tales of Zahavan heros, devotional treatises, religious hymns and rhymes, in addition to the scripts for plays and other theater performances. The works of Eulalius Bardas are among the earliest examples showing characters in a story interacting with one another with dialogue.

Essays, which consist of writings on any number of topics ranging from mathematics, to observations and critiques of society, psychology or commentary on various schools of philosophical thought.

Encyclopaedae and Scientificum, contains works on history, or in depth analysis in schools of science such as geometry, physics, algebra, politics. Calixta Comnena, was among the earliest such writers, using works on military history to demonstrate the merit in the study and analysis of historical events.