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After every harvest, the residents of the entire area gather near the chapel for the Phoenix festivities, to sacrifice their prize stock and to burn their spoils, in order to sow the blessed ashes to fertilize the soil, hoping for a phoenix-like rebirth of the crops in spring.

Not all offerings seem to make the pyre, however. And why is that mystic chapel so heavily guarded?

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Uploaded on January 10, 2021