Chapter 83

Their ceremonial preservation, however, was most prominently displayed on the east side of the tunnel, where relatively untouched pockets of small wilderness and holy groves had served as sites of devotion for their gods, goddesses, and ancestor spirits for centuries. The drawings were made by someone who wasn't particularly talented, and they include the application of color pigments to the walls, floors, and ceilings of ancient rock sanctuaries, the drawing of naked figurative sticks of humans, and the majority of the drawings of their snakes, signs, and symbols, amongst other subjects.

The serpent people were diametrically opposed to her ancestors in a number of significant respects. They were strong beings, much like their gods, and the majority of them were enormous in stature, hairless, and green in complexion, much like their gods. The Serpentine clan, however, was a passionate, skilled, and environmentally conscious group of individuals. They were colder and more repti