The first epics were products of preliterate societies and oral history poetic traditions. Hieroglyphs may have emerged from the preliterate artistic traditions of Egypt. Similarly, archaeological evidence indicates the development of astronomical knowledge in preliterate societies. Its decentralised nature makes it similar to the law that prevails in preliterate tribal societies. The contact story was preserved as an oral tradition by the preliterate Tlingit. Some even criticized the bringing of literacy to preliterate societies as harmful. His books have run counter to the once widespread notion of peaceful preliterate cultures. In preliterate societies, these forms of poetry were composed for, and sometimes during, performance. There are three kinds of global cultural codes&colon; preliterate (traditional), literary and screen full. The only emotions the preliterate people found hard to distinguish between were fear and surprise.