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The Chronicle of Akakor
earth’s axis. The Neolithic age, starting around 5000 B.C., saw important cultural innovations and added
a far-reaching economic upheaval: the transition to farming and to productive economic systems.
Neolithic man cultivated wild cereals and bred sheep, goats, and pigs. Large families settled in villages
and later on in fortified towns. Between 8,000 and 6,000 B.C., Jericho was considered the preliminary
stage for urban high civilizations, although Egyptologists suspect an even older culture in the Nile
valley. Archaeological findings in Eridu and Uruk point to the first sacred buildings. The earliest clay
tablets with writing were found. Word and phonetic signs replaced the primitive pictorial script.
Considerable care for the dead can be observed in all civilizations. Several floods and catastrophic
volcanic eruptions, probably around 3000 B.C., are described in the Bible as the Great Flood. South
America continues to be settled by waves of immigrants from Asia.

The Collapse of the Empire

Truly, the White Barbarians are a mighty people. They rule the sky and the earth and are at the same
time bird, worm, and horse. They think they are seeing the light, but nevertheless they live in darkness
and are evil. And the worst part is that they deny their own God and themselves strive to be God and to
make us believe that they are the rulers of the world. But the Gods are still greater and more powerful
than all the White Barbarians together. They still decide who of us should die and when. Still, sun,
water, and fire serve them first. For the Gods do not allow their secrets to be taken from them. Our
priests say they will send a judgment that will free the White Barbarians from the burden of their errors.
Long and continuous rain will fall and wash away the darkness in their hearts. The waters will rise
higher and higher and carry away their wickedness and their lust for power and wealth. Just as it
happened already once thousands of years ago and as it is set down in the chronicle, in good words, in
clear script:
"Three moons passed, three times three moons. Then the waters divided. The earth quieted again.
Streams found different courses. They lost themselves among the hills. High mountains surged toward
the sun. The earth was changed when the Chosen Servants left the underground dwellings, and their
sorrow was great. They lifted their faces to the sky. Their eyes searched for the plains and the hills, the
rivers and lakes. The truth was terrible; the destruction was awful. And Ina called a Council of the
Elders. The Chosen Tribes gathered gifts: jewelry, and the honey of bees, and incense. And they
sacrificed these to bring the Gods back to earth. But the sky remained empty. The era of the jaguar
began: the time of blood when everything was destroyed. Thus the link between the Former Masters and
their servants was severed. And a new life started."

The years of blood, the period between the year 13 and the year 7315, are the darkest epoch in the
history of my people. The Chronicle of Akakor does not report these events. For thousands of years,
there are no entries at all. Oral records are also poor and interspersed by dark prophecies.

"It was a terrible era. The savage jaguar came and devoured men’s flesh. He crushed the bones of the
Chosen Servants. He tore off the heads of their servants. Darkness dwelt over the land."
After the first Great Catastrophe, the empire was in a desperate situation. The underground dwellings of
the Former Masters did withstand the tremendous landslides and none of the thirteen cities was
destroyed, but many of the passages that linked the borders of the empire were blocked up. Their
mysterious light had been extinguished like a candle blown out by the wind. The twenty-six cities were
destroyed by a tremendous flood. The sacred temple precincts of Salazere, Tiahuanaco, and Manoa lay
in ruins, destroyed by the terrible fury of the Gods. The scouts who had been sent out reported back that
only very few of the Allied Tribes had survived the catastrophe. Driven by hunger, they left their old
settlements and penetrated into the territory of the Ugha Mongulala, trailing death and perdition behind
them. Despair, distress, and misery spread over the whole empire. Bitter fighting broke out over the last
fertile regions. The dominion of the Chosen Tribes was at an end.

"This was the beginning of the inglorious end of the empire. Men had lost their reason. They crept
through the country on all fours. They trembled in fear and terror. They were downhearted. Their spirit

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