She informed me that those which she crowned were the corpses of men who had been sacrificed during the present season--by season meaning the six months of light; and that though many more were here, yet they wore crowns of gold.

At the end of ten years they were removed to public sepulchres.

The number of those which had to be crowned by her was about a hundred.

Her work was only to crown them, the labor of collecting the flowers and weaving the wreaths and attending to the lamps being performed by others.
I left this place with Almah, sad and depressed.

She had not told me why these victims had been sacrificed, nor did I feel inclined to ask.