When coming into contact with image of The Ideal, even those of your enemies, The Foreign Gods, from the perspective of any visitor to the Temples, Sacred Groves and other such consecrated ground --
When approaching
Usual Vault Rules Apply :
When in ThePressence or Approaching The Divinity,
TOUCH-NOT, Lest Thee Be TOUCHED
But what the story was designed to indicate, in my opinion, is that
There are certain things that
you touch at your peril,
regardless of your intentions.
LIKE STAR WARS
And those things that you touch at your peril, regardless of your intentions, most cultures regard as
Sacred
and
Untouchable.