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comment them with strangers. The fear lies in the possibility that the story could be repeated,
in that the terrible punishment of those days could fall again over the country. For this reason
it is convenient to not with them, and much less make any specific question about the past:
that would be a suicide; after thrilled of terror the interrogated, undoubtedly, would mount in
wrath and that would attract other villagers; and then, if he doesn't reach to scape at time,
would be attacked by all and would be lucky if he save his life.
After roaming some eighteen kilometres, very near to Aracena, is arrived to a tiny
elevated valley, situated in the heart of the mountain range of Aracena. There exists a village
which has to be crossed very fast to avoid the blows of stones of the children or something
worse; is a population of the XV century and it not seems to have evolved much since then: the
mayority of the housings are made of stone, with the apertures masked with wood worked by
axe, and roofs of uneven slates; and many of these housings are uninhabited, some of them
totally destroyed, showing that an increasing decadence affects the village, and that only the
tenacity of the ancient families have prevented its extinction. Its name, «Alquitrán» (tar), was
imposed in that Age and constitutes a kind of curse for the dwellers, who never achieved to
change it by other due to the persistence that neighboring villages have. The origin of the name
is at two kilometres ahead, near to the end of the valley, where a colorless cartel expresses in
Latin and spanish «Campus pix picis», «Campo de la pez», «Tar pits».
Logically, it is useless to search «the tar pit» there because such denomination comes
from the XIII century, when existed much tar in that field, at least something similar: from
there the name of the near population of miners, who when they founded it in the XV century
had to support the tenebrous name imposed by their neighbors and they ended to accept it
without resignation. But, from where had came the tar which distinguished that lost valley
within desert mountains? That pitch, that tar, Dr. Siegnagel, is all what remainded of the army
that the Count of Tarseval raised to attack the Castle of Aracena and rescue his son Godo.
In such valley, in fact, the Count Odielón encamped with his troops that overpassed the
thousand effectives; fifty knights, five hundred brave almogavars, and five hundred man of the
village. More than sufficient to attack and raze the Templar Castle which just counted of a
garrison of two hundred Knights; although the Templars had fame to fight three to one,
nothing could do against forces five times superior. All that was required to end with the
Templar threat, and rescue Godo if he was still alive, was to prevent that the Castle could
receive reinforcement, and for it would be fundamental to dominate the surprise factor. For
this reason the Count Odielón decided to march towards Aracena through a cornice path which
only the Lords of Tharsis knew, and that passed for that valley where they went to camp the
nocturnal hours to appear by surprise at the dawn. But the dawn would never reach for these
Lords of Tharsis.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Bera and Birsha began the satanic Ritual. The Noyo was
lying at the shore of an underground lake, still alive but fainted due to the received tortures
and the multiple suffered mutilations: he had lost his hand and feet nails, the eyes, the ears and
the nose; and, as a last act of sadism and cruelty, they had cut his tongue «as a prize to his
fidelity to the House of Tharsis and the White Atlanteans». Curiously they didn't apply torment
his genital organs, perhaps due to the devotion that those sodomite Priests professed for the
phallus.
Even though the forty nine candles, of the seven candelabrums, illuminated a lot the

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