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etymology has nothing mysterious if it is thought that the village was founded by the jewish
traders who travelled with the Phoenicians during the occupation of Tharshish, a thousand
years before the actual Age; which later was called Arcilasis by Ptolemy; Aracena by the greeks;
and Vriato, which resisted on it to the Roman legions, denominated it Erisana. For the Arabs
was Dar Hazen and, due to horrible food that the saracens made when the Christians took by
surprise the village, the Moorish Aracena.
Since 1259, were dispatched troops to Aracena from many regions of Spain and even
France, by luck that during the construction remained two thousands Knights camped, assisted
by three thousand servant brothers. Such forces were distributed around the Hills and
performed a rigurous surveillance to avoid that the near dwellers could get closer to watch the
works. The Mates of Solomon, the mason guild controlled by the cistercians, concurred to the
request of Great Master due to, even if the Order of the Temple counted with their own
division specialized in the military constructions, «this» fortress would have something
different. In first place, it had to possess a great church; and in second term, that church would
need to have a secret entrance communicated with its ships with the underground Cave: So, it
was indispensable, the assistance of the College of Temple Constructors.
The College entrusted the edification of the church to the Master Pedro Millán. This one
was authorized by the fiery Golem Pope alexanderIV, the same who in those moments
excommunicated Manfred de Suabia and procured the extermination of the Hohenstaufen and
the ruin of the Ghibelline party, to consecrate the church to the cult of the of Sorrows. Such
dedication, of course, was not causal but it obeyed to the Golem plan of substituting to the
Virgin of Agartha, the Divine Atlantean Mother of Navutan, for a Jewish Virgin Mary, who
cried, distempered her Heart of Fire due to the pain of the crucifixion of her son Jesus: the
Virgin of Agartha, on the contrary, didn't cry neither experienced any pain in her
Heart of Ice when his Son of Stone crucified himself in the Tree of Terror and died,
but she rejoiced and shed Her Grace over the incarcerated Spirits, because his son had
died as the bravest White Warrior who faced the Illusion of the Potencies of the
Matter. The celebration of the Cult to the Virgin of Sorrows was instituted, as could not had
been in other way, by the ineffable Golem Pope Innocent III when he introduced the sequence
Stabat Mater in the mass of the Sorrows, the Friday of the Passion of Jesus Christ. The
Master Pedro Millán raised, then, for the Templars, the church of Our Lady of Sorrows,
patroness thence of Aracena, consecration that contrasted openly with the Virgin of the Grace
and Hapiness, Our Lady of the Grotto, who was venerated in the neighboring Seigniory of
Tharsis, or Turdes. When the Temple was finished, was deposited in her altar the image of Our
Lady of the Greatest Sorrow, which is still conserved, and received from Urban IV the hierarchy
of Priorate of the Order of the Temple.
Simultaneously, was feverishly worked in the construction of the Castle, elevated with
the Church, to 700 mts., fencing with walls and pits an adjacent area of a mudéjar tower. Five
years later, the church and the Castle were finished and the surplus troops, as the Contructors
Brothers of Solomon, were withdrawing serenely from the zone; nevertheless, would pass many
years before the local villagers would dare to get closer to the Hill of the Castle of Aracena.
But that task was not all what the Templars undertook against the House of Tharsis in
those years: the Castle of Aracena was an obligation imposed by the immortals, to which they
had given loyal accomplishment; now they would wait patiently the return of Bera and Birsha

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