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It could also be: names of settlements ending in -ley, "family x hasn't spoken to family y for 20 years because family y's garbage was brought to them by the wind", ancient bee hives on trees, one shop that isn't even in a real building, where there might be an old granny who only speaks in short phrases and avoids eye contact, etc.

I made a quick sketch of the Erzyan Earth Goddess. I was actually thinking about how shocked I was when I found out that we once had beautiful, full-flowing rivers (today they are all completely shallow because those who came to our land cut down almost all of our forest to make gunpowder). So much has been lost, not only in culture, but even in the way the land itself looked.