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the silent Spartans from Lacedaemonia, and the tattooed Picts from Albion, etc. and all those
who reached to Pyrene came disposed to die. To die, yes, due to that was the condition of the
Promise, the requirement of Her Grace: as all her worshipers knew, the Goddess had the Power
to convert men in Gods, to elevate him to the Heaven of the Gods; but, as all also knew, the
strange Chosen ones that she accepted had previously to pass through the Test of the Cold Fire,
that's to say, through the experience of Her Fatal Gaze; and such experience ended generally in
the physical death of the Chosen One. According to what their adepts knew, and without that
such certainty affected in nothing the fascination for Her, there were much more Chosen
Ones who had died than the provenly reborn; those who received Her Fatal Gaze certainly
fell; and many, most of them, never stand up; but some of them did it: and that remote
possibility was enough for the worshippers of the Goddess to risk everything. Those who would
awake from the Death would be those who really had given their hearts to the Cold Fire of the
Goddess and those who She would reward taking them as Husbands: for Her Grace, when
reborn, the Chosen One would not be a man of flesh and bones but a Man of Immortal
Stone, a son of the Death. This titles in a beginning constituted an enigma for the Lords of
Tharsis, who introduced the Reform of the Cold Fire in the Ancient Cult of Belisana, because
they affirmed to have received directly from the Goddess in a mystical inspiration, although
they supposed that was referring to a superior condition of men, near to the Gods or the Great
Ancestors. But then, when amongst the same Lords of Tharsis existed Men of Stone, the
answer became suddenly clear. But occurred that such answer was not suitable for the asleep
men, neither to the Chosen Ones who with most fervour worshipped the Goddess: the Men of
Stone would silent to this secret, of which would only talk amongst them, and would form a
College of Tartessians Hierophants to preserve it. Therefore, would be the Tartessians
Hierophants, that's to say, my ancestors, transmuted by the Cold Fire, who would control the
march of the Cult.

Eighth Day

In the Period when the Ritual of Cold Fire was not celebrated, the Tartessians
Hierophants allowed the pilgrims to reach the clear space of the Sacred Forest and contemplate
the colossal effigy of Pyrene; there they could deposit the offerings and meditate if they were
disposed to face the Death of the Test of the Cold Fire or if they preferred the return to their
illusory reality of their common life. By the moment the Goddess could not harm them because
Her Eyes were closed and no one was communicating Her Sign of Death. But, even for this
conviction, many remained frozen of fright before the Revealed Ancient Countenance and were
no less those who escaped in that moment or died of terror right there. That was due to that
Menhir was placed there by the White Atlanteans demigods thousands of years before, but, in
the days of the alliance with the Lydian, not existed anyone over the Earth capable to emulate
such feat to translate through thousands of kilometres a giant stone, and deposit it in the

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