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In the I century B.C. the House of Tharsis had been related with the Roman nobility and
was quite powerful in the Baetica, a province that counted with 175 cities, many of them rich
and forceful as Corduba (Cordova), Gades (Cádiz), Hispalis (Seville) or Malacca (Málaga). Over
the base of the estate given by the Carthaginian and the restitutions made by the Romans, the
Lords of Tharsis developed a rustic Roman village, building a Lordly Residence and widening it
with the acquisition of huge extensions of fields for cultivation; cereals, olive, grapevine,
integrated the main production, apart from some minerals that were still exploited in the
mountain range of Catochar. It must be clarified that the Roman cadatre named it as the
«village of Turdes» while the Roman Empire governed, although, I will continue mentioning
Lords of Tharsis to maintain the continuity of the narration.
As all the landowners families Roman-Hispanic possessed a dwelling in the City where
they remained most part of the year; however, if they could, they always preferred to retire to
the campestral land because their major interest was to be near to the Secret Cave.
The Golems had no chance to influence over the Roman population and their power was
conserved intact only in Lusitania, in some regions of the Gaul, in Britain and Hibernia. After
the campaigns of Julius Caesar, this power seemed to decrease completely and, for some time,
was believed that the threat was definitely conjured. This, as was seen, was an error of
appreciation, a new underestimation with respect to the capacity of the Golems to
carry out their plans.
In regard to the Cult of the Cold Fire, the Lords of Tharsis had no problems to re-
implant it because Romans were notably tolerable in religious matters and, also, they also
worshipped thev Fire since remote Ages. In the Village of Tharsis they constructed a lararium
dedicated to Vesta, the Roman Goddess of Fire and Home: there, before the statue of the
Goddess Vesta-Pyrena, burned the Perennial Lamp of the Home, the flamma Iar that should
never be off. Even being now a private Cult, the House of Tharsis had not lost their mystical
and thaumaturge fame, and soon their Village became in other place of pilgrimage for the
seekers of the Spirit, without reaching, naturally, the proportions of the Age of Tartessos. The
family gave to Rome good functionaries and soldiers, apart from the contribution of food and
mineral production, but also provided Rome of Haruspex, Augurs and Vestals.

Twelfth Day

The emperor Constantine, with the Edict of Milan of 313, legalizes Christianity and
grants rights equivalents to the official Pagan Cults. At the end of IV century, in the year 381,
and thanks to the emperor Theodosius I, is declared Christianity «official religion of the
Estate» and Pagan Cults were forbidden; in 386 is ordained, through an imperial decree, «the
closure of all the Pagan temples»; and in 392, by imperial law, «the Pagan Cult is
considered and punished as crime of lese majesty», that’s to say, sanctioned with death
sentence. These actions not affected to the Lords of Tharsis because years before they had
already adopted Christianity as familiar religion. The cult of Jesus Christ proceeded from
Canaan, the homeland of the Golems, and such origin resulted, as is logic, suspicious since the
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