In the shadow of modernity
"Gradually it became plain to them that ancestor figures had lured Spider into the backlands and taken him away. But where to and for what reason? Was this death, or transition, and on what plane of being was Spider situated? The picture clarified, and precise details emerged, when three members of the Balbal family, all desert born, all strongly endowed with maparn, or magic, powers, had a shared dream in which Spider's circumstances were spelled out, and this account soon became the standard version of the story, at least in the indigenous domain."
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