Word: dewdrop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inhabitants of Buon Yun supplement their spare diet of present comforts with the rich legends from a past that is never very far behind them. The birth of each child precipitates a search for the proper dewdrop, containing the spirit of the appropriate ancestor, to place on its tongue. Spirits swarm through the village, susceptible to human requests but never recriminations; when disasters occur they only mean that the prayers of the living have been improperly presented. A'de, their creator, is still in his heaven, holding Buon Yun up by means of a sturdy rope...