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«the other of the Occidental Sea»; Chrysaor would born armed with a Golden Sword, just as Lito
de Tharsis, who would depart to America carrying the Wise Sword of the Iberian Kings. And I
also believe that Pegasus is my son Noyo, who was born with Wings to fly up to the Abodes of
the Liberator Gods and he has the power to open the founts with his strikes, just that in his
case, it treats about the Founts of the Wisdom.

The survivors of the House of Tharsis, curiously eighteen, were gathered near to the Secret
Cave, in a narrow terrace naturally protected with huge rocks which allowed certain defense
and whence could be dominated the hillside of the mountain range. The saga tells that one
moment before, the Men of Stone, the only ones who knew how to enter, had sustained a
counsel in the Secret Cave: before the disaster that was coming against the House of Tharsis,
they swore to dedicate all the efforts to give fulfillment to the familiar mission and save the
Wise Sword. Was necessary for the Lineage to continue existing at any cost; and concerning to
the Wise Sword, they decided that, after the death of the last Vrayas, would remain perpetually
deposited in the Secret Cave, at least until the day when other, Man of Stone, offspring of the
House of Tharsis, would be able to see in it the Lytic Sign of K'Taagar and to know that they
should go: until that occasion the Wise Sword would not see the light of day.
When they left, they communicated these determinations to their relatives and required
news about the Realm. But the news that reached to the improvised refuge were strange and
contradictories. It should be discarded a prompt help of the Romans due to the Golems had
rebelled against them all the populations of the Gaul, cutting off the path to Spain: the rescue
of Tartessos demanded now a very numerous expedition, which would leave unprotected the
own Rome. On the other hand, in Tartessos, the Carthaginian victory had been overwhelming:
all Tartessos was in power of the General Barca, what completed the total occupation of the
South of Spain. To the Lords of Tharsis only remained their lives and a battalion of loyal and
brave royal guards. However, something strange and contradictory happened.
Hamilcar Barca, it is true, annihilated Tartessos down to convert it in debris. In this
action both he, and the mercenary army, acted moved by an homicidal fury which surpassed
every reasoning, by an indomitable force that possessed them and did not abandon them until
they destroyed completely the already occupied city. Was as if the hate experimented for
centuries by the Golems against the House of Tharsis would have been accumulated in some
obscure recipient, perhaps in the Myth of Perseus, to release it all together in the
Carthaginian Soul.
Nevertheless, after consummated the irrational destruction, the General Barca and the
military Chiefs who accompanied he recovered abruptly their lucidity, not being apart from this
phenomenon the death of the twenty Golems and the departure of Bera and Birsha.
Momentarily, something was interrupted, something that impulsed General Barca to
desire the annihilation of the House of Tharsis; and there were no Golems in Tartessos
anymore to restart it. Thereby, free for the moment of destructive passion of the Argive
Perseus, Halmicar Barca worked with the reasonableness of an authentic Carthaginian, i.e., he
thought in his personal interests. For Halmicar Barca the Enemy was not only in Rome; there,
in any case, was the enemy of Carthage; but in Carthage were also the enemies of Halmicar
Barca, who envied his career of successful general and distrusted of his power; those who had

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