Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

knowledge of our civilization in your expedition’s archives.”“We didn’t have the styles quite right, you’ve got a bettersense of color than Evans gave you credit for, even though itis even more dramatic than he envisioned.”“He was an amateur historian,” Yellelle said, “not aninterior designer, there were dozens of professional interiordesigners at work in the temple at any one time.”“We didn’t know very much about your religion. Wethought it might have been a mystery religion with humansacrifices.”“There are some crimes for which the high priestess willsentence someone to death, killing a defenseless child in coldblood for instance. The executions are carried out in the mostremote sacred sites, in full sight of the Goddess and withprayer for a sign that what we do is wrong. In one famousinstance the sign came, but too late, the sentence had alreadybeen carried out so the Goddess in her wrath smote theground in an Earthquake that leveled the shrine where thesentence was carried out. In spite of that, in my time the highpriestess was more likely to impose a death sentence than inthis time, but it did happen even now.”“But what you told me is the same as ancient Kortraxianfrom Alan’s world, something he couldn’t have known at thetime because we didn’t know that about Minoan religion.”“Maybe the Goddess is stronger than you think and canreach many souls.”“Do you believe that mumbo-jumbo?” Ava asked her.432