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I see those stones with their spirals and they seem straightforward enough to me. Someone, whether moved by the same stories or immortalized in part by them, saw fit to carve those portal stones with the spirals, the same tight hypnotic spirals that adorn the gold jewelry of Celts living across the Channel several thousand years later, and the coats on the bodies of some of my friends.
