Nearby were the collapsed remnants of an ancient city, its cyclopean stones mired in sand, its stone jetties submerged, and its immense dome of white stone canted at an angle. Along the beach was a settlement of impoverished fishermen living in ramshackle huts. The Thel Akai, Ereko, said the dolmens were built by humans long ago mainly for use as a cemetery, but also as a "ritual centre, timepiece, observatory, calendar, temple, and prison." Also the site of the first Chaining of the Crippled God.