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The Chronicle of Akakor
When the candle is extinguished, feelings also become extinct. Therefore they as well cannot mean our
real life. For our body and our senses are subject to time; their character consists of change. And death
is the complete change. Our heritage teaches us that death destroys something we can in fact do without.
The real I, the kernel of humans, life, is outside of time. It is immortal. After the death of the body it
returns from whence it came. Just as the flame uses the candle, the I uses man to make his life manifest.
After death, it returns into nothingness, to the beginning of time, the first beginning of the world. Man is
part of a great incomprehensible cosmic happening that runs smoothly and is ruled by an eternal law.
Our Former Masters knew this law.

In this manner, the Gods taught us the secret of the second life. They showed us that the death of the
body is insignificant and that only the immortality of life counts, detached from time and matter. In the
ceremonies in the Great Temple of the Sun we thank the light for a new day and sacrifice bees’ honey,
incense, and choice fruit, as it is written in the chronicle:

"And now we will speak of the temple, called the Great Temple of the Sun. It bears this name in honor
of the Gods. Here the prince and the priests assembled. The people burned incense. The prince
sacrificed the blue feathers of the forest bird—these were the signs for the Gods. In this way, the
Chosen Servants did homage to their Ancient Fathers who are of the same blood and have the same
father."

The knowledge of our Former Masters was vast. They knew the course of the sun and divided the year.
The names they gave the thirteen moons are Unaga, Mena, Lano, Ceros, Mens, Laime, Gisho, Manga,
Klemnu, Tin, Memos, Denama, and Ilashi. Two moons of twenty days each are followed by a double
moon. Five spare days at the end of the year are dedicated to the veneration of our Gods. Then we
celebrate our most sacred holiday, the solstice, when the renewal of nature begins. The Ugha Mongulala
assemble on the mountains around Akakor and salute the new year. The high priest bows down before
the golden disk in the Great Temple of the Sun and divines the immediate future, as the laws of the
Gods prescribe.

The bequest of the Ancient Fathers determines the lives of the Ugha Mongulala from birth to death.
They attend the priests’ schools from the age of six to eighteen. There they learn the laws of the
community, of warfare, of hunting wild animals, and of cultivating the fields. Girls are instructed in
weaving, preparing food, and field work. But the most important task of the priests’ schools is the
revelation and explanation of the bequest. Youthful Ugha Mongulala learn the holy signs of the Gods
and how to live and die. In their eighteenth year, the men must pass a test of courage. Each one must
fight against a savage animal on the Great River, for only he who has faced death can understand life.
Only then can he become worthy of being accepted in the community of the Chosen Servants. He is
permitted to assume a name and to start a family. After his death, his family severs the head and burns
the body. The priest shows the head to the rising sun as a sign that the departed has fulfilled his duties
toward the community. Then the head is preserved in one of the grave niches of the Great Temple of the
Sun, as it is written in the chronicle, in good words, in clear script:

"Thus the living sacrificed for the dead. They gathered in the Great Temple of the Sun. The mourners
stood before the eye of the Gods. They offered rosin and magic herbs. And the high priest spoke:
"Verily, we thank the Gods. They gave us two lives. Excellent is their order in heaven and on earth."

3. APOTHEOSIS AND DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE

2,470 B.C. – 1,421 B.C.

In Egypt, the Old Kingdom ended around 2,150 B.C. At approximately the same time, Babylon was
destroyed by an invasion of mountain tribes. The empire of Sumer and Akkad was established about
2,000 B.C. Political unity under King Hammurabi reached an even higher level of art and civilization.
His code provided the basis for the subsequent law of the Roman Empire. Starting about 2,000 B.C.

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