cyth RELIGION AND BELIEF — A religious object. A cyth is a large, flat stone altar, typically surrounded by water, with runes and → lynthian carvings covering its surfaces. Often (but not always) found in a → Place of Skulls (or a → Dun-twille), the cyth are used as a platform for sex and sacrificial rituals, especially by the → dumas. Their carvings on top were designed to collect the blood and other fluids from the sacrifice and either to direct them to a collection pot or to empty into the surrounding water. The area surrounding a cyth is always a → low place.