What do they mean?
You try to ask Tal if he knows anything about those symbols, but he quickly places a furry finger on your lips. The sounds of deep drums are sounding, Upon lowering it, he retracts a claw and writes something in the sand:
‘FORBIDDEN ZONE!
GANESHA HEARS ALL’
You ascend the slippery sand of the mountain, reaching the low summit. And you see it – ruins of the stone temple, wooden and iron debris of leveled huts, spears impaling skeletons resembling those of men with animal skulls, broken clay pieces, wooden debris, and skeletons of all sorts litter the grounds of this desecrated temple. moss-infested ropes made from jungle vines hold together the royal pavilion, stitched together from a mismatch of furs – lions, cheetahs, baboons, jackals, bears, and other pelts Ganesha kept as trophies of her conquest, and at each side of the temple, a cobbled-together shrine to an elephant with 4 arms, made from clay and held together with sticks.
There, you find the great elephant, taking her morning bath in the mud as hog men and small monkeys cover her with mud carried from the river in clay jars in a ritualistic line, as one hog, adorned with teeth and feathers as jewelry, oversees the ceremony and sounds the drums, made with rhinoceros skin.
Tal gently tries to pry a spear out of the ground, and a few leftover pieces of clay. and urges you to do the same.
Written by PrinceZahn on 14 November 2017
