This symbol was repeated nine times, in three groups of three; and after each group a symbol of the Upper World, the Under World, and the Sky.
So that for this Lonely One there could be, through the vengeance of all the Gods, resurrection in neither the World of Sunlight, in the World of the Dead, or for the soul in the region of the Gods.
"Neither Mr.Trelawny nor I dared to tell any of our people what the writing meant.

For though they did not believe in the religion whence the curse came, or in the Gods whose vengeance was threatened, yet they were so superstitious that they would probably, had they known of it, have thrown up the whole task and run away.
"Their ignorance, however, and our discretion preserved us.

We made an encampment close at hand, but behind a jutting rock a little further along the valley, so that they might not have the inscription always before them.

For even that traditional name of the place: 'The Valley of the Sorcerer', had a fear for them; and for us through them.

With the timber which we had brought, we made a ladder up the face of the rock.