FOGOU: 4

He had wondered if the use of a fogou did not in fact connect across theories.

What if, during a long period of upheaval and invasion, people went down into fogous not to hide, but to escape?  What if they passed through a door into Annwn?

Or had believed they had.  He imagined a ritual use of magic mushrooms, datura stramonium, white henbane.  Persons gathering their flocks in times of deadly fright, giving them entheogens and poison to drink as they prayed before the wall and waited for it to open and gather them into Annwn.  His wife called it the Jim Jones Hypothesis.

He and his wife had carefully cut a single exploratory trench out of the floor of the fogou.  There were human bones under the thick cold mud, none of which exhibited cut-marks from sword or axe.  But not enough to suggest the fogou as site of a suicide exodus to Heaven.  Further trenches, they agreed, could compromise the structure of the fogou. One day, when things calmed down out there, they would arrange for geophysics surveys.

But things did not calm down out there.