The protection has endured because the people who carried it understood what they were protecting.

They were not simply keeping a secret about a geographical location.

They were protecting the integrity of a man who had given his life — literally — to resist being possessed by the power that eventually killed him.

His family, in the hours after his death, chose not to let that power possess his remains.

That choice has been maintained.

The land holds him.

The community knows, to whatever extent and in whatever form the knowing has survived.