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The Chronicle of Akakor
as the Pacific coast 300 years later. The new rulers of Peru developed a strong socialist-oriented state and
established the largest empire in the history of Latin America. Only the latest archaeological finds in the
highlands of Peru and Bolivia have resulted in totally different historical opinions. Since it is as difficult to
explain the Incas’ rise to being a world power within 300 years as it is to understand the development of a
"socialist" state, the new theory holds that the origin of the Incas was hundreds, even thousands, of years
before A.D. 500. The historian Montesinos, who had for so long been decried as a fantasist, is being
reinstated: "A long time ago the divine Viracocha emerged from a cave. He was wiser and more powerful
than ordinary men, gathered tribes around himself, and founded Cuzco, the city of the four world corners.
This is the beginning of the history of the sons of the sun, as they call themselves."

Montesinos is the only Spanish historian who places the rise of the Inca empire in the pre-Christian era.
However, he finds more support among his colleagues when he describes the women of the ruling family.
Pedro de Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru, raves about the white skin of the Inca women, of their hair, "the
color of ripe wheat," their finely molded features that would compare favorably with those of any Madrid
beauty. Anyone familiar with the Peruvian highland Indians can only be astonished with such a portrait. The
descendants of the proud Incas are small in stature, with reddish skin—the exact opposite of the Spanish
ideal of beauty. Either they have changed completely in the course of the centuries or the Inca ancestors
belonged to a different breed. Fernando Montesinos connects them with the legendary Viracocha. Pedro de
Pizarro adds that the natives take their prince to be "a child of the sky god," just like all other white and
fair-haired people. The Chronicle of Akakor describes Viracocha as belonging to the race of the divine
Prince Lhasa. Legends of the Peruvian highland Indians tell of a white-skinned tribe that vanished in the
jungle without leaving any trace. But the mysterious people did not disappear entirely. In 1911, the
American explorer Hiram A. Bingham discovered the city of ruins, Machu Picchu, in the Urubamba valley
at an altitude of 3,000 meters. It was comparatively well preserved and had many similarities to the Inca
mountain forts. But neither Pizarro’s contemporaries nor the descendants of the Sun Kings knew of its
existence. Bingham only discovered the city because he had been following the tracks of an old legend; this
was the reason why he confused Machu Picchu with the still undiscovered Inca city of Paititi, the redoubt of
the Inca Prince Manco II.

In the meantime, archaeological finds have proved that Machu Picchu is not identical with Paititi. The city
of ruins dates from an era about which nothing is known and is one of the archaeological miracles that has
withstood all attempts at interpretation. It has been explained and put in historical perspective only in the
Chronicle of Akakor. According to the recorded history of the Ugha Mongulala, the "sacred city" was a
foundation of the Exalted Son of the Gods, Lhasa. When the Inca empire collapsed at the arrival of the
Spanish conquerors, they gave up Machu Picchu and retreated into the tropical jungle.

The Goths in Latin America

Traditional historiography keeps cautiously silent about the prehistory of the Incas and Maya for lack of
dates, although the end of their civilizations is extensively described by Spanish historians. Exactly the
opposite applies to the Ostrogoths, that proud race of warriors that conquered Italy within a period of sixty
years and was then defeated by the East Roman General Narses at the battle at Mount Vesuvius in A.D.
552. The last survivors of the formerly powerful people disappeared without trace. Linguists claim to have
discovered their descendants in the south of France; ethnologists and historians think they are in the south of
Spain. Neither school can supply definite proof.

According to the Chronicle of Akakor, the survivors of the unfortunate Goths united with bold sailors from
the north. Together the two nations set out to find the Pillars of Hercules, where they might complain to the
Gods. For thirty moons they traveled the infinite ocean until they came to the mouth of the Great River. The
linguists agree on at least one point. The Pillars of Hercules, which are also mentioned in Greek mythology,
are identical to the Straits of Gibraltar, between Spain and North Africa. Here then was the place where the
Goths searched for the Gods who had abandoned them. But their hopes were betrayed; a strong wind drove
the ships of their allies into the open sea. The fifty-meter-long wooden boats of the "bold seafarers" must

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