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The Chronicle of Akakor
Mongulala suffered many humiliating defeats, Maid finally vanquished the Tribe that Lives on the
Water and took its chieftain prisoner. The danger from the West seemed to have been banished.

"How will this end? More and more people make their own laws, forget the bequest of the Gods, live
like animals. Great is the number of the Chosen Servants, but innumerable are the Degenerated. They
devastate our fields and kill our sons. They are imperious, and many are the peoples they have
subdued."

The rebellious tribes mentioned in the chronicle belonged to the Degenerated. Lhasa had integrated
them into the Akakor empire and had taught them the bequest of the Gods. In the course of millennia
they evaded the sovereignty of the Ugha Mongulala and forgot the teaching of the Ancient Fathers.
They lived like savage tribes in straw huts or rectangular reed houses large enough for the whole tribal
community. Their settlements are surrounded by a high wooden barrier. They wear no clothes. They are
unfamiliar with the loom. But they are very clever in working feathers into headdresses. The
Degenerated cultivate the land by burning down the forest. They plant manioc, corn, and potatoes. The
hunt is as important to them as tilling the soil. Their bows and arrows are similar to ours, but smaller
and lighter. They have adopted the same poison as the Ugha Mongulala. In close combat they use a
lance with a sharpened stone point.

Whereas my people venerate the bequest of the Gods, the Degenerated Tribes worship three different
divinities: the sun, the moon, and a god of love. For them, the sun is the mother of all life on earth. The
moon is the mother of all plants and animals. The god of love protects the tribe and is responsible for
the peoples’ fertility. If a tribe believes it is unlucky, the magician-priest drives out the evil spirits. The
Degenerated also know about the essential I that detaches itself from the body in the moment of death
and merges into a second life. They believe that this second life takes place in the underground
dwellings of the Former Masters.

Viracocha, the Son of the Sun
The White Barbarians believe they possess the highest knowledge. And they do, in truth, make many
things we cannot make, which we will never understand and which are mysteries to us. But the actual
highest knowledge of humans has long since disappeared. The knowledge of the White Barbarians is
only a relearning and a rediscovery of the Gods’ secrets, the ones who have shaped the lives of all
peoples on earth. The Chosen Servants have most faithfully preserved the bequest of the Gods, and their
knowledge is accordingly greater. The Degenerated Tribes hardly remember the times of their ancestors,
and they live in darkness. The bequest of the Gods was never revealed to the savage tribes or the White
Barbarians, and like animals, they roam over the country.

Only one people apart from the Ugha Mongulala knows about the laws of the Gods. They are the Incas,
a sister nation of the Chosen Tribes. Their history begins in the year 7951 (2470 B.C.). In that year,
Viracocha, the secondborn son of Prince Sinkaia, rose up against the bequest of the Gods. He fled to the
Tribe that Lives on the Water and founded his own empire.

"And the priests gathered, men powerful in magic. They knew about future wars. Everything was
revealed to them; they knew whether war and discord were close. Truly, their knowledge was
overpowering. And since they foresaw the betrayal of Viracocha, Sinkaia’s second son, they chastised
themselves and fasted in the Great Temple of the Sun in Akakor. They ate only three kinds of fruit and
small corn cakes. It was really a great fast to the shame of the faithless Viracocha. Nor did any woman
join them. For many days they stayed alone in the temple, looking into the future, sacrificing incense
and blood. This is how they spent their days, from dawn to dusk, and their nights. They prayed with
heavy hearts for forgiveness for the faithless son of Sinkaia."

The priests’ prayers could not move the heart of Sinkaia’s second son. Although he was not entitled to
hold the office of the prince, he claimed sovereignty over the people of the Ugha Mongulala. He
rebelled against the bequest of the Gods and broke Lhasa’s laws. To preserve peace in the realm, the

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