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At once he gave the order to the clear-voiced heralds To summon warwards the Akhaioi with their long-grown hair.

The eventual regrowth of the forest to its primeval state will take centuries, if not millennia.

[H. Patrick] Glenn refers to Indigenous law as chthonic law, because it is the law of chthonic peoples – peoples 'who live ecological lives by being chthonic, that is, by living in or in close harmony with the earth'.