“Their ceremonies, despite everything, still prove to be a mystery to us. They were an advanced, sapient species and yet their fertility rituals, where they placed their gods within resealable glass vessels to be engulfed by their motile gametes, seemed to afford them the opposite effect. Surely this lowered their rate of conception rather than raising it, and surely they understood that. And yet, we find so many figurettes entombed within long coagulated excretions. Truly, they were a curious bunch.”