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The Chronicle of Akakor
Fathers transplanted man from planet to planet, one of which was the earth.

Brazilian ships sunk by German U-boats

The end of the world is described in a similar way in the written and oral traditions of the old American
nations. For the Central Americans, the cosmos we know is the fifth since the creation of the world: the sun
of the earth or of the night, the sun of the air, the sun of the fiery rain, and the sun of the water; the fifth sun,
the sun of the four movements, will vanish when the monsters of dusk rise in the West, goaded by the evil
God Tezcatlopoca, who chews up the globe of the earth and keeps it in his gullet. Then the human race will
become extinct. But a sixth sun will be born, a new world in which men will be replaced by planets, that is,
Gods. The Indian tribe of the Tupi expects a giant deluge that will destroy everything. According to the
Chronicle of Akakor, the Gods will return after a third catastrophe has punished the White Barbarians.

If one trusts the myths and legends of the indigenous peoples of South America, mankind’s future is not
assured. The world runs through cycles, each of which ends in a catastrophe. According to the priests of the
Ugha Mongulala, only a few moons are left—we have until 1981. According to the Maya calendar, the next
long count ends in 2011.

What are man’s real future expectations for the following fifty years? The Club of Rome paints a
pessimistic picture. Food production lags behind the population explosion. The accumulation of atomic
weapons is sufficient to destroy mankind thirty times over and to pollute the atmosphere for centuries. Our

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