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Ninth Day

Amongst the Chosen Ones who faced the Test of the Cold Fire three results could be
expected. First, that some of them not approved the Test, that is to say, that would have not
passed through the effective experience of the Death, either due to the initial Terror not gave
place to the Animal Passion, or because the Warm Fire not turned in Terror, or just because the
Terror avoided to see the Infinite Blackness face to face, or by any other reason. In second
term, that some of them had really died. And the last, that some of them would have
resuscitated. In the first case, the Chosen Ones would be executed in the next night of the Test
of the Cold Fire; for the Tartessians Hierophants should not present to the Test the one who
will not be really disposed to die; because from the Test no one had to leave alive; if someone
died, or resuscitated, who would reborn would not be who died but a Son of the Death,
someone who would carry a Signal of Death and the Death in Himself: that is to say, a Son of
the Death would be begotten in the Death by Himself. Who assisted to the Test, and not died,
not deserved to live: the Executioner Woman from Tartessos would hand down the stone axe
over his neck; she would kill him the next night of the Test, in the copse of willows consecrated
to the Moon Goddess Loa, at the riverside of the Odiel. What happened to them? No one
certainly knew what would be their luck, if they really died forever, if they would resuscitate in
another world, if they would reincarnate again in future lives or if their Souls would
transmigrate to other beings.

But how much lasted the Test of the Cold Fire? Only the Hierophants, and those who
have failed, and who would die too, knew it; only they conserved the consciousness of the
passed time. Those who were reflected in the Infinite Blackness, and found the Naked Truth of
Themselves, received also a Reflect of the Eternity: the contemplation of oneself, what is a
reflect of the Eternal Spirit, is experienced in a unique instant, not possible to be
encompassed by the Time of the Creation; the Chosen Ones who find the Kâlibur Death of
Pyrene could not respond never that question; the experience of the Eternity is indescribable.

For this reason those from the second group, those who really died, were considered
Very Loved by the Goddess, because she had retained them for the Eternity. And were realized
the same funerals of the Wise Warriors to them: they would have the right to be incinerated
with the sword in their hands; and an Ash wood urn, with his ashes, would be later thrown to
the Occidental Sea.

In the third case, when exceptionally some Chosen One returned from the Death, was
immediately incorporated to the Hierophants College of Tartessos. The fact constituted a
motive of celebration in all the Realm due to the population, who didn't understand esoteric
quibbling’s, infallibly intuited that a Son of the Death meant a reward for the Race; even if he
triumphed by Himself in the Test of the Cold Fire, the new Hierophant would be considered as
the exponent of a collective merit, of a racial virtue. But the ancient Hierophants, who knew

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