Legends
According to local tradition, the ruins are protected by the spirits of its priests. These "Old Ones" supposedly curse anyone who harms the site or removes anything.
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“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
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“a child’s
Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother
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And the twice-told fields of infancy”
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A path decorated with our comings and goings. Or so I’ve been told.”
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