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The Chronicle of Akakor
               service to the community. Its worst enemies are greed and wrath." Now Jacob became angry.
               His words were angry. He threatened with cold heart: "Even if you kill me, you will not live.
               For my people are like the ant. They are indefatigable in their creativity. They recognize no
               resistance." And murmuring broke out among those present. Bitterness filled the hearts of the
               people. And the high priest rose up. He spoke the last complete truth: "A person who is tied to
               nothing, who does not see himself as the tool of the Gods, is not human; he is infamous. He is
               lost, like the wounded animal in the forest. You White Barbarians have no faith. You deny the
               will of the Gods. You do not respect even your own god. You do not observe even your own
               laws. Therefore you shall die, and all your friends with you."

         This entry concludes the disputation between Jacob and the high priest Magus. The white rubber seekers
         were killed. Akakor doubled the watch posts on the rivers.

         The Ugha Mongulala waited for the return of the Gods. This period, when the German soldiers arrived,
         explained in the fourth part of the chronicle, subjected my people to their most difficult trials. The last
         Allied Tribes renounced their alliance. The Chosen Servants had to flee into the underground dwellings.
         The only thing left to them was the bequest of the Gods. The White Barbarians could not take that away
         from us, for it is reflected in every tree, every flower, every stalk of grass, the sea, the sky, the clouds. The
         Gods extend their hands to all men and do not believe that one should be unequal to the next man or that
         one should say, "I stand in the sun, you belong in the shadow." By their bequest, all should be in the sun,
         although we now are compelled to hide in the shadow of the mountains.

               Everything is repetition. Nothing passes that cannot be started again. Everything has already
               happened before: victory and defeat, power and weakness. Since time immemorial, nature has
               repeated itself. Only the bequest of the Gods remains forever, for all times.





         THE BOOK OF THE WATER SERPENT

         This is the water serpent; it is strong. Silently it moves through the Great River in search of its enemy.
         Powerfully it fights against the thousand hands of its hunters. It tears its bonds. For it is free and invincible
         in its realm.

         1 THE GERMAN SOLDIERS



         1932—1945

         The conditions of the Treaty of Versailles occasioned considerable changes in Europe. Under the pressure
         of adverse economic conditions, many new ideologies of authoritarian character gained ground. In 1933,
         Hitler assumed power in Germany with his National Socialist party. His ruthless policy of expansion led to
         World War II, whose ramifications extended to other continents. The Latin American countries at first
         adopted a laissez-faire attitude toward National Socialism. After the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Hitler
         tried to induce the Brazilian President Vargas into an alliance and offered him several steel plants in
         compensation. However, under pressure of the U.S.A., Brazil declared war on Germany in 1942. Hostilities
         on the South American continent were restricted to secret commando actions by the German army, which
         were supported by the large German colonies there. Within this period, the fate of the Indians was not
         appreciably changed. For the second time, an army of rubber cutters advanced into the Amazon region to
         secure the valuable raw material for the Allies. The native population retreated ever further into the
         inaccessible virgin forest regions.






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