tutelage

The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding.

the king's right of seigniory and tutelage

The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy.

The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; the care or protection enjoyed; being a ward or a tutee.

Instruction; teaching; guidance; being a tutor.

Taught from their cradle-bed to know The bitter tutelage of wo, No idle fears in their bosoms glow, But pride and wrath in their dark eyes glance, As they lift their martyr'd fathers' lance.

Kirk has attempted to write the definitive explanation of myth, but he too has overlooked von Dechend and, therefore, cannot make much sense concerning "Inanna's Descent into the Nether World." But when from von Dechend's tutelage we realize that Inanna is identified with the planet Venus, then we understand that there is more going on in the myth than a dramatization of the empty storehouse in winter.