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In what is modern Rome there exists an elephant holding an obelisk and if you desire you can see this in Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

But this trivial fact has no relevance to the proceedings at hand.

The locals described whispers emanating from Sacro Monte di Varallo.

The building has remained vacant with the exception of hundreds of wax figures added in 1590.

All of which enact a permanent resonance the life of Christ and what was foretold.

The whispers couldn't come from something inanimate of course.

But when children visit in the summer tours they marvel at the virgin Mary with a faraway look.

The priests fasten the hair connected to the halo which is ever so slightly moved.

"I could have sworn her eyes were facing the floor instead of the window".

The entire geographic embodiment of the structure can be seen for miles reaching out into the perimeter.

Where the blue sky fades into the blackness of the stars into a galaxy unknown slowly resembling the eye.

''We're the beacons of death in the spiral void upon all that is and all that shall become.

These markers that separate us shall pass and from it will emerge the test of will.''