"It amazes us.

In our world there is nothing like to it." "Perchance there will be in the future when the nations grow more skilled in the arts of war," said Oro darkly.
"Be pleased, Lord Oro," I went on, "if it is your will, to tell us why the people who built this place chose to live in the bowels of the earth instead of upon its surface." "They did not choose; it was forced upon them," was the answer.

"This is a city of refuge that they occupied in time of war, not because they hated the sun.

In time of peace and before the Barbarians dared to attack them, they dwelt in the city Pani which signifies Above.

You may have noted some of its remaining ruins on the mount and throughout the island.