@MK2boogaloo @Griffith @Vril_Oreilly @BronzeAgeHogCranker @NirtyDigger @yockeypuck I started being more literal about the meaning of patrician and brahmin when I got to that than I was at first. The Roman patricians had a tradition of maintaining fires burning constantly in hearths in their homes. These were believed to have been handed to mankind originally by Prometheus. Vesta (Roman)/Hestia (Greek) was the goddess of these hearths. Having come from this tradition and maintaining the fire in the home was the requirement to be a true patrician. If the fire ever went out, your family station declined to plebian status.

The Vedic Aryans had a very similar tradition among brahmins, but the hearth was dedicated to Agni rather than Hestia/Vesta