What is "marai"

Usage examples of "marai".

Past that, dominating the view on a rising mound of stone, were the five giant conical towers and the long pillared galleries of the Marai, the Temple of the Mountain.

The Temple of the Sare had reacted to her presence, but this was the Marai, one of the two pivotal temples in the Kushor-At and the Celestial Empire.

She wanted this quiet reacquaintance with the Marai first, before she dealt with its people.

It was part of the Celestial One’s duties to complete a meditation ring in every temple in the city, and the Marai was always done during the Year Rites.

She could feel the stirring of life in the Marai now, its link to the Infinite.

It was a forest of massive towers, larger than the Marai, all surmounted by carved stone faces, so large they were visible even at this distance.

And you have to learn how to listen to the Ancestors of the Marai, so they can guide you if you go wrong.

If the man had been that close to the Marai, then he couldn’t have been under any kind of influence.

It was barely possible to work dark magic within the boundaries of Duvalpore, but the power sink in the Infinite that the Marai formed would overwhelm any lesser force.

Maskelle had been planning to draft Rastim and maybe Firac to help haul the cursed puppet to the Marai tomorrow to get the Ariaden’s problem taken care of.

Their purpose accomplished, he sent away the temple guards and the priests, with instructions to bring the palanquin back in time to return him to the Marai for the next meditation ring.

He had then taken a nervous Rastim and Firac to the Marai to see to the disposition of Gisar’s box.

But before this she would have said that it was impossible for such a thing to enter the city at all, let alone the Marai or any other temple.

It was a small temple compared to the Marai, only about a fourth the size, with two stories of galleried courts supporting a three-level stepped pyramid, and five small, elegantly proportioned shrines atop that.

After a moment Maskelle recognized her as the Court Lady who had been with the Celestial One when they had arrived at the Marai yesterday.