once there had been suggestions that it could become a cellar , but this had been forestalled by those with lingering memories of years gone by , when the governor of the cornovian civitate that was now vortigerns kingdom had worshipped the soldiers god in that artificial cave ; there had been those with recollections of rumours concerning dark rituals where men waded through streams of bulls blood , and worshipped a god whose legends and rites seemed to the christians like a satanic mockery of their own - so the stories went .