The telling
Between sky and earth there are gates, and all of them are stone. Rising, the shaman knows when he has passed one: whoever passes is changed, whoever does not stays where he was.

The Middle World · Sky
A stone arch. The threshold dividing earth from sky; the shaman's journey passes here.
Between sky and earth there are gates, and all of them are stone. Rising, the shaman knows when he has passed one: whoever passes is changed, whoever does not stays where he was.