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The Chronicle of Akakor
all roads so that we can absorb its great wisdom and live like humans."

I remember. It was in the year 12,449, when I first visited the land of the White Barbarians. Again and
again, the soldiers asked the same questions. They spoke about the life of the peoples on the Great River,
about their alleged laziness and their alleged vices. The savages, so they told me, are congenitally stupid,
cunning, and false. They have little spirit and no stamina. They kill each other for the love of fighting. In
this way the White Barbarians spoke about peoples who already had written laws when they themselves
were still running the woods on all fours, as it is written in our chronicle. But I accepted their evil talk; I
stored up their words inside me like a scout who remembers the tracks of his enemies.

But in the eight moons I spent in the country of the White Barbarians, I found nothing that could have been
useful to my people. It is true that they have also cultivated fields and built cities. They have laid roads and
invented powerful instruments which no Ugha Mongulala can understand. But the bequest of the Gods has
remained hidden to them. The White Barbarians are destroying their own world with their false beliefs.
They are blinded to such an extent they do not even recognize their origin. For only he who knows his past
will also find the way into the future.
The Ugha Mongulala know their past, as it is written down in the Chronicle of Akakor. Therefore they also
know their future. After the prophecies of the priests, a third Great Catastrophe will destroy the earth in the
year 12,462 (1981). The catastrophe will begin where Samon once established his great empire. A war will
break out in this country that will slowly spread over the whole earth. The White Barbarians will destroy
each other with weapons that are brighter than a thousand suns. Only a few will survive the great storms of
fire, and among them will be the people of the Ugha Mongulala who have remained in the underground
dwellings. This, in any case, is what the priests say, and thus they have written it down in the chronicle:

A terrible fate is in store for mankind. A storm will rise, and the mountains and valleys will
tremble. Blood will rain from the sky, and man’s flesh will shrink and become soft. People will
be without strength or movement. They will lose their reason. They will no longer be able to
look backward. Their bodies will disintegrate. In this way the White Barbarians will reap the
harvest of their deeds. The forest will be filled with their shadows, twisted with pain and
helpless. Then the Gods will return, full of grief for the people who forgot their bequest. And a
new world will arise where men, animals, and plants will live together in sacred union. Then
the Golden Age will return.

That ends the Chronicle of Akakor.

APPENDIX

SUPPLEMENTARY EXPLANATIONS, EXAMPLES, AND REFERENCES
The Origin of Latin American Man

It all started with Christopher Columbus. When the Italian sailor discovered the New World at the end of
the fifteenth century, he established contact with theretofore completely unknown people. Because
Columbus and his companions had been seeking the way to the West Indies, they were convinced that the
natives were called Indios, and this name has been retained, although the error that brought it into being was
corrected very shortly afterward. Over the past 500 years, archaeological findings and ethnological research
have led to the most extravagant theories about the origin of American man. Gregorio Garcia, one of the
officials of the Spanish Inquisition, even assumed that the inhabitants of the new world were of biblical
origin. One son of Noë’s, Isabel, was thought to have populated America as far as Peru, whereas another
son, Jobal, would have settled in Brazil. (This South American tale is obviously a version of the Noah
story.) Garcia wrote in the seventeenth century, "The natives do not recognize Jesus Christ. They are not
grateful to us for the good we do them. Therefore they can only be unbelievers."

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