Local religions have, in many cases, mutated into forms sanctioning the conservation and protection of these natural resources.53 They have recovered their transcendent role, not necessarily by evoking a universalist view, but in invoking a moral authority that is higher than the worldly powers and their ideal of progress.

Those old fellas don’t want to be written about or filmed. They just keep our Law in secret places and sacred objects that are so powerful they take your breath away. They have no need to assert or defend this Law. It is immutable and will outlast anything you can inscribe on paper or store on a server.