People of the Inner Sea (The Age of Bronze)
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"We were bearing the king's brother, Ganuméde, to the sacrifice, although he did not know it. We set out at dawn from the harbor of Tróya. By noontime, we had entered the waters of the Mármara, the small and shallow sea that T'rákiyans and Ak'áyans know very well, that lies just beyond the straits. But, at the end of that deceptively easy journey, we came upon the gates of the dáimons that every ship must pass before touching the much larger Hostile Sea. There, at the end of the small Márm...ara Sea, we saw two great cliffs towering on either side of the passageway. The water narrows in that place, until the weakest archer could shoot an arrow from one side of the water to the other.
"The one cliff rises, straight and sheer, to a high peak that is always covered by dark clouds. Hidden from sight in those clouds, high above the bowshot of even the best archer, there is a cave, where a dáimon lives that the Tróyans call Qalánta. Her name means the Head, in the language of the Náshiyan priests. You have seen figurines of the Tróyan double goddess, have you not? The statuettes have a single, round body, with but a single pair of breasts to share between them, but there are two necks standing on that body. That is exactly what this monstrous being, Qalánta, is like. She has two ghastly heads, on necks that are so long, she can lap up the sea water with her tongues, while her fat, beastly body is sitting high above the clouds, unseen. No ship can pass her cliff-side cave without losing men. I do not mean a religious offering either, the kind that mariners will sometimes make, of their own free will, in a bad storm. You cannot bribe this deity of the sea not to sink you. No, the goddess herself takes whoever she wants and chooses as many victims as she desires, too. Qalánta swings her heads down from the cliff and devours men on the very decks of their ships, as they row past the high place where her cave lies.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
"We were bearing the king's brother, Ganuméde, to the sacrifice, although he did not know it. We set out at dawn from the harbor of Tróya. By noontime, we had entered the waters of the Mármara, the small and shallow sea that T'rákiyans and Ak'áyans know very well, that lies just beyond the straits. But, at the end of that deceptively easy journey, we came upon the gates of the dáimons that every ship must pass before touching the much larger Hostile Sea. There, at the end of the small Márm...ara Sea, we saw two great cliffs towering on either side of the passageway. The water narrows in that place, until the weakest archer could shoot an arrow from one side of the water to the other.
"The one cliff rises, straight and sheer, to a high peak that is always covered by dark clouds. Hidden from sight in those clouds, high above the bowshot of even the best archer, there is a cave, where a dáimon lives that the Tróyans call Qalánta. Her name means the Head, in the language of the Náshiyan priests. You have seen figurines of the Tróyan double goddess, have you not? The statuettes have a single, round body, with but a single pair of breasts to share between them, but there are two necks standing on that body. That is exactly what this monstrous being, Qalánta, is like. She has two ghastly heads, on necks that are so long, she can lap up the sea water with her tongues, while her fat, beastly body is sitting high above the clouds, unseen. No ship can pass her cliff-side cave without losing men. I do not mean a religious offering either, the kind that mariners will sometimes make, of their own free will, in a bad storm. You cannot bribe this deity of the sea not to sink you. No, the goddess herself takes whoever she wants and chooses as many victims as she desires, too. Qalánta swings her heads down from the cliff and devours men on the very decks of their ships, as they row past the high place where her cave lies.
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