When you speak about the blank sheets of papers, it reminds me of the Transposition Principle. Maybe those sheets of paper are talismans, with their words hidden within them and may reveal only to the power that created it.
What or who might have created those papers? The paper does have something written in it or else why should it be inside such a holy place?
You must try to find an object that relates with the papers. Something relative, directly or indirectly.
Indirectly in the sense, papers symbolise...... knowledge?