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Rh with which all nature, ice, snow, clouds, and stones are enveloped and enwrapped.

Is it possible that this hole in the wall and this scarcely noticeable gleam reminds those prisoners of the night of the moment of the appearance of the sun?

The birth of the sun! The myth of Helios! A myth in the primitive, arctic night-like, gloomy form. A different form for different men. For it is the country of forlorn tribes whom God and men have forsaken!