god-stone

Updated: July 16, 2025

Then he pauses at the whitewashed shrine and notes that the god-stone has been freshly painted red and that chaplets of faded flowers lie before it. But the old Malee approaches with a meek salaam and a posy of jasmine and marigolds and warns him that there is a cobra in the shrine.

Edward Hamilton Aitken - Concerning Animals and Other Matters