The volume collects two novellas that revive classical myth in atmospheric prose. In one story, a late spring carnival and a moonlit descent into Roman groves bring formerly worshipped goddesses and ritual memories into uneasy contact with a Christianized present. The other transports the reader to a mysterious island of the dead where uncanny encounters blur boundaries between the living and the afterlife, probing longing, erotic impulses toward mythic beings, and the persistence of old beliefs. Both pieces stress mood, ritual detail, and nostalgic reflection on a vanished sacred world.