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         bound the prince of the Chosen Tribes, the supreme servant of the Gods, like a wild animal and kept me
         captive in a large stone house. I have to thank the Gods that I succeeded in escaping. They gave me the
         strength to break my bonds. I knocked down my careless guards and fled. Eight moons after my departure I
         returned to Akakor with empty hands, disappointed at the lies of the White Barbarians.



               And the priests assembled. They fasted for thirteen days in the Great Temple of the Sun. They
               were ready to sacrifice their lives. They were ready to give their hearts for their children, their
               wives, and their descendants. They wanted to die for their people. This was the price they were
               prepared to pay. That was the burden they were ready to take up to save the Chosen Tribes.



         The Ugha Mongulala did not accept the sacrifice offered by the priests. For 12,000 years they had
         repudiated human sacrifice and had kept the laws of the Former Masters, from which they would never
         deviate. For these are eternal laws and they determine the life of the whole people of the Chosen Servants.
         They assign each individual’s task in the community, as it is written in the Chronicle of Akakor, in good
         words, in clear script:
               It happened an infinitely long time ago. A paving stone lay on the road to the Great Temple of
               the Sun. It saw people pass over it to make offerings to the Gods. It saw people from all four
               corners of the world. And the paving stone was seized by longing. And when the high priest
               passed over it, it asked for legs. And the high priest was greatly surprised. But the wise man,
               the magician, the lord over all things, gave legs to the paving stone. He gave it four legs that
               would never stop moving. And the paving stone set out. Over mountains and valleys, through
               plains and forests, it wandered here and there until it had seen everything and was tired of
               looking. So it returned to the Great Temple of the Sun. And when it came to its old place, it
               saw that it was already filled. And its heart grew heavy and it wept bitter tears. And the paving
               stone recognized the truth: Only he who fulfills his tasks in the community fulfills the laws of
               the Gods.



         4 THE RETURN OF THE GODS


         I 970—present

         The world is filled with skepticism and uncertainty. Changes are occurring in all fields of knowledge that
         threaten to disrupt previously valid economic and political systems. The stocks of atom and hydrogen
         bombs are sufficient to destroy all life on earth. The increasing shortage of raw materials has led to the final
         assault on the last unexplored regions. Trunk roads and airports in Amazonia have created the necessary
         bases for the opening up of the enormous virgin forest regions, restricting the living space of the native
         population still further. According to the estimates of FUNAI, the Brazilian Government’s Indian Protection
         Authority, scarcely 10,000 forest Indians will live to see the year 1985.


         The Death of the High Priest

         When a man has nothing much to lose and all roads to the future look bleak, he turns to the past. This is
         what I did by revealing the secret of the oldest people on earth. But the White Barbarians did not believe my
         words. Like ants that destroy everything, they take what little land we have left. And so the Ugha
         Mongulala are preparing for their extinction. For the end is near; the circle is closing. The third Great
         Catastrophe is approaching. Then the Gods will return, as it is written in the chronicle:




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