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white invaders could never find it, although surely they would utilize the two parallel
carriage way that the Ingas constructed imitating The Path of the Gods. But they, the
two Amautas of the Black Bonnet, should not talk about these matters with the Huancaquilli
due to such mission was reserved to the «Atumurunas», who were waiting for them at the end
of the journey.
The capital, Cuzco, was located in the centre of the four regions in which the Inka
Empire was divided: in the West, the Kontisuyu; in the East the Antisuyo; and in the South,
towards the Path of the Gods was oriented, the Kollasuyu. The two Real Paths found by the
conquerors of Pizarro, were from North to South, following a parallel way to the Path of the
Gods: the coastal route, began in tumbes and it reached to Talca, in Chile, 4.000 kilometres
later; the central, a thousand kilometres more extensive, started from Quito and ended in the
Lake Titicaca. But the difference was that the Real Paths were roads where the whole activity of
the Empire was canalized: the Path of the Gods, on the contrary, was a secret way, only knew
and employed by the Amautas of the Black Bonnet, the feared Initiates of the Cold Death
Atyhuanuy.
The Path of the Gods showed a perfect state of conservation, competing in certain places
of exceptional beauty with the best European routes: that was obtained by the permanent
distribution of some men through it, who were in charge of the carriageways maintenance, of
the chaski service, and the sustenance of the Tambos that existed every three or foure leagues.
Accordingly, after walking a bit through the cyclopean stone path, the travellers found a
Tambo of huge dimensions: according to what the Lords of Tharsis knew later, those «Huge
Tambos» were edified in the surroundings of the lateral exits, and secrets, of the Path of the
Gods. The place was attended by memebers of the same Swarthy Race that served to the
Amautas; some children ran to discharge the llamas that they brought and guided them to a
corral, but they demonstrated great fear for the Spaniard horses, which had to be attended by
the Catalans. There they ate the unmissable corn tortilla, tamales, the hot api, and they rested
the half of the day. A chaski, in the meantime, went on the run to advance the new about the
arrival of the Lords of Tharsis.
Even for the exhausting days, during which they marched all the day and just stopped in
the nights in the nearer tambos, time passed and the Path of the Gods seemed to have no end.
And week after week, the cold, the wind, and the snow, were pushing them continuously, due
to the Path strangely descended under the 3.000 metres, obeying them to be permanently
snug. A motive of joy was constituted by the fast recovery of Guillermo de Tharsis: only two
days after the healing of the fever it stopped notably, and the inflammation of the leg began to
disappear; after fifteen days he could walk almost normally. But seventy days later, they were
still transiting the same straight carriageway, wich accidents, repeated a thousand times,
echelons, ramps, tunnels and suspension bridges, were now boring and monotonous for them.
The presence of the runic inscriptions in the same Germanic language was constant
during the thousands of kilometres traveled, although it tended to increase in veriety and
perfection in the measure that they were drawing nigh to their destiny. But such legends and
signals were evidently posterior to the megalithic constructions that were found disseminated
throughout the Path of the Gods: such stones exhibited the ancient and distinctive Sign of the
Vrunes of Navutan, from which the runes just reflected a superficial symbolism.
One week before they reached to the Lake Titicaca, they arrived to a tambo where eight

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