# What can a text carry across ages?

**What can a text carry across the ages?**

Words change, readers change and translators choose. Traditions keep texts alive by reading, chanting and arguing over them again and again.

Connects to:
- [Sacred texts](https://mapideas.org/i/re_text)
- [Oral traditions](https://mapideas.org/i/hi_oral)
- [Translation](https://mapideas.org/i/la_translation)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_text_ages · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#q_x_text_ages