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The Chronicle of Akakor
Brazilian officers of the Indian Protection Service, but without success. This, in any case, was his story.
Was I to believe it or reject it? In the humid heat of the Gracas a Deus bar, a strange world was revealed
to me which, if it existed, would turn the Maya and Inca legends into reality.

The second and third meetings with Tatunca Nara were in my air-conditioned hotel room. In a
monologue lasting for hours, only interrupted by my changing to a new tape, he told the story of the
Ugha Mongulala, the Allied Chosen Tribes, from the year zero to 12,453 (i.e., from 10,481 B.C. to 1972
according to the calendar of white civilization). But my initial enthusiasm had disappeared. The story
seemed too extraordinary: just another legend from the forest, the product of tropical heat and the
mystic effect of the impenetrable jungle. Tatunca Nara finished his report, and I had twelve tapes with a
fantastic fairy tale.
Tatunca Nara’s story only began to seem plausible when I once again met my friend, the Brazilian
officer M. He was part of the "Second Department," a member of the secret service. M. had known
Tatunca Nara for four years and confirmed at least the end of his adventurous story. The chieftain had
saved the lives of twelve Brazilian officers whose plane had crashed in the province of Acre and led
them back to civilization. The Indian tribes of the Yaminaua and Kaxinawa revered Tatunca Nara as a
chieftain even though he was not of their tribe. These facts were documented in the archives of the
Brazilian secret service. I decided to check further on Tatunca Nara’s story.

My research in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Manaus, and Rio Branco yielded astonishing results. Tatunca
Nara’s story is documented in newspapers starting in 1968, when a white Indian chieftain is first
mentioned who saved the lives of twelve Brazilian officers by obtaining their release from the Haisha
Indians and leading them to Manaus. Through the help of the officers, Tatunca Nara was granted a
Brazilian labor permit and an identity card. According to witnesses, the mysterious Indian chieftain
speaks broken German, understands only a few words of Portuguese, but is fluent in a number of Indian
languages spoken along the upper reaches of the Amazon. A few weeks after his arrival in Manaus,
Tatunca Nara suddenly disappeared without a trace.

In 1969, heavy fighting broke out between savage Indian tribes and white settlers in the Peruvian
frontier province of Madre de Dios, a godforsaken, miserable region on the eastern slopes of the Andes.
Amazonia’s old story was reenacted: a rising of the oppressed against the oppressors, followed by the
victory of the ever-victorious whites. The leader of the Indians, who, according to Peruvian press
reports, was known as Tatunca ("great water serpent"), fled to Brazilian territory after the defeat. In
order to prevent a continuation of the attacks, the Peruvian government applied to Brazil for extradition,
but the Brazilian authorities refused to cooperate.

Fighting in the frontier province of Madre de Dios slowly subsided during 1970 and 1971. The savage
Indian tribes fled to the almost inaccessible forests near the source of the River Yaku. Tatunca Nara had
seemingly vanished. Peru closed the frontier to Brazil and started the systematic invasion of the virgin
forest. According to eyewitnesses, the Peruvian Indians shared the fate of their Brazilian brothers: They
were murdered or died of the diseases of white civilization.

In 1972, Tatunca Nara returned to white civilization, and in the Brazilian town of Rio Branco, he
established a connection with the Catholic Bishop Grotti. Together, they begged for food for the Indians
on Rio Yaku in the churches of Acre’s capital. Since Acre province had been considered "free of
Indians," even the bishop was not granted any help by the state. Three months later, Monsignore Grotti
died in a mysterious plane crash.

But Tatunca Nara did not give up. With the help of the twelve officers whose lives he had saved, he got
in touch with the Brazilian secret service. He also appealed to the Indian Protection Service (FUNAI)
and told the West German Embassy secretary N. in Brasilia about the 2,000 German soldiers who
reportedly landed in Brazil during the Second World War and are still alive in Akakor, his people’s
capital. N. did not believe the story and refused Tatunca Nara further access to the embassy. FUNAI
only agreed to cooperate after many details of Tatunca Nara’s story about unknown Indian tribes in

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