Remoteness

Timbuktu's name has become a byword of remoteness.

The remoteness of the island, where cars don't fit on the narrow streets and donkeys are the main mode of transport, has helped maintain its 650-year-old Swahili culture and traditions.

Remoteness isn't measured in distance.

It isn't by distance that remoteness is measured.

Remoteness creates beauty.

Then again there was a period of what is sometimes called Euhemerism - the theory that the gods and goddesses had actually once been men and women, historical characters round whom a halo of romance and remoteness had gathered.