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[jeanniejournals]

Near Maras Salt Mines, Sacred Valley, Peru

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[manessha545]

Salineras de Maras, Maras, Peru: Salt has been harvested in Maras since the time of the Inca Empire. The site has around 3000 Salt Evaporation Ponds of 5 square metres each. As the location is surrounded by salty mountains, subterrean water deposits the salty water in the ponds; the water evaporates due to the exposure to the sun. After approx. 1 month the level of salt reaches 10 centimetres and is removed in sacks... Maras is a town in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, 40 kilometers north of Cusco, in the Cusco Region of Peru. Wikipedia

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[calochortus]

Peru: Salineras de Maras - Photo #1 by Doug Craig Travel Photography Via Flickr: This one is from the salt evaporation ponds at Maras, Peru, approximately 40km north of Cusco. There are more than 5,000 of these ponds. According to Wiki: "Since pre-Inca times, salt has been obtained in Maras by evaporating salty water from a local subterranean stream. The highly salty water emerges at a spring, a natural outlet of the underground stream. The flow is directed into an intricate system of tiny channels constructed so that the water runs gradually down onto the several hundred ancient terraced ponds. Almost all the ponds are less than four meters square in area, and none exceeds thirty centimeters in depth. All are necessarily shaped into polygons with the flow of water carefully controlled and monitored by the workers. The altitude of the ponds slowly decreases, so that the water may flow through the myriad branches of the water-supply channels and be introduced slowly through a notch in one sidewall of each pond." Quote of the Day: "Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." (Maimonides)

[onespacedown]

Seriously, though, mares (as in the monsters, not the horses) are a seriously underrated part of the pantheon of horror monsters. I feel like we easily could have had a classic 19th century gothic horror novel that brought them into vogue like vampires. Honestly, if I were the type to write straight-up horror, I'd write one, but I don't know that I could do it justice.

Just imagine it, though. There's been a rash of nocturnal attacks around town. People are having strange dreams, and are afraid to go to sleep. Some of the protagonist's best friends have complained of a ghastly hag climbing onto their chests to gnaw on their souls by night. Slowly, as the protagonist journals her strange dreams, it becomes more and more apparent that she's the creature tormenting people by night, and she just straight up doesn't realize it.

Would it be super-gay? Indeterminate, but ideally. Perhaps a close female friend of the protagonist whose spinster status/late husband's mysterious death had people looking askance at her until she became a victim of the creature, herself.

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The World of Mammals. Written by Augusto Vigna Taglianti. 1979.