Episode 0: Prologue
Old Gods of Appalachia
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The Darkness of the Backwater World
"These are the oldest mountains in the world. And how dare we think we could break the skin of a god and try to dig out its heart without bringing forth blood and darkness? For generations, the outside world has looked at us and wondered why we've never really climbed out of these hollers," he says. "They don't understand how short the days are here, how these mountains swaddle us in an early darkness." 'Don't hear the lost hymns that haunt these hillsides,' adds Hernando de Soto-Perez.'And they don't hear the prayers that rise up in the night, prayers raised to a god on high bu fall
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