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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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