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Helical stepwell in Walur Village, India (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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[–] Rolando 7 points 5 months ago

MC Escher approves.

[–] cccrontab 6 points 5 months ago

Where's the stake of Marika? Then you gotta past through the golden smokey threshold before you can challenge the area boss.

[–] over_clox 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is either a really open public toilet, or a portal to hell..

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It says in the title that it's a well. It was probably the main source of water for the community once. I imagine there would be a number of people going up/down at one time to fill containers with water.

[–] DaMonsterKnees 3 points 5 months ago

I think I made a Valheim base in one of these, once