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you aware of the consequences that the presence of the Lydian produced in the Cult of the Cold
Fire. To understand the next we only need to remember that the Lydian were more «educated»
than the Iberians, that’s to say, more culturally civilized, instead the more «uneducated»
Iberians, in other words, more barbarous, were more spiritually «cultivated» than the Lydian,
they possessed more Wisdom than Knowledge.
Those differences would produce that the Lydian Princes, now from the same family of
the Lord of Tharsis, would accept without deepening in the esoteric meaning of the Cult of the
Goddess of the Cold Fire, therefore would be denominated by common agree «Pyrene», and
would employ all their effort to improve the exoteric form of the Cult. Such application goes
always in detriment of the esoteric part and, as could not be in other way, with the time would
result fatal for the Tartessians. But this you will see then, as I announced, I am going step by
step.
The Lydians, as in other industries, were skilled artisans of stone.
What do you believe that they made in their eagerness in the development of the
exterior form of the Cult? They decided, before of the horror of their Iberian relatives that
nothing could make to avoid it, to carve the Menhir in the Sacred Forest with the Image of
Pyrene; the sculpture would contribute in the sustaining of the Cult, they explained, due to the
necessity of the Lydian people of a more specifically image of the Goddess: her representation
as the Flame was too abstract for them.
The Menhir consisted in a brute stone olive colored, of some five metres of elevation,
and of truncated cone form: the Lydian proposed to employ it completely to carve the Head of
the Goddess. According to their project, the nape had to be in front of the Apple-tree, in such
form that the Divine Face would see directly to the population; and the people, distributed in a
surrounding clear space from where was performed the ritual scene, would see the Face of the
Goddess and, behind it, the Apple-tree of Tharsis. Two Master sculptors worked in the carving,
one to sculpt the Face and the other the serpentines forelocks, meanwhile other three
assistants were occupied to make the cavity of the nape, connected with the Eyes of the
Goddess. The work was not finished before of five years due to, even when the iron tools of the
Lydian allowed to advance a lot in the beginning, the proposed polished termination demanded
them many years of work: really, the Tartessians would continue polishing for decades the
Head of Pyrene, until to endow it an impressive realism.
The necessity that the Lydian felt in the contemplation of a figurative manifestation of
the Goddess was common in that Period: the populations of the Cultural Pact were
experimenting then a widespread fall in the exoterism of the Cult, what took them to worship
the most formal and apparent aspects of the Deity. The populations presaged that the Gods
were retiring from inside, but they only could detain from outside: for that reason they were
desperately clung to the Bodies and the Divine Faces, and to any natural form which
represented them. Being in this way, must not surprise the intense religious fervor that awakes
in the populations, and the extraordinary geographic diffusion, that the Cult of the Cold Fire
produced after the transformation of the Menhir. Apart of the Tartessians, prideful
depositaries of the Promise of the Goddess, people from thousand different populations
pilgrimaged towards the «Sacred Forest of Tartessos» to be present in the Ritual of the Cold
Fire: among others, were the Iberians and Ligurians coming from all the corners of the
peninsula, and the brilliant Pelasgians from Tyrrhenia, and the portly Berbers from Libya, and

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