The Mistery of Belicena Villca attended from all parts of the World to die or find the Naked Truth of Oneself ; the White Fraternity , the Order of Melchizedek , the brown Atlanteans , the Priests of all Cults , the Golen , the Immortals Bera and Birsha , the Templars , members of the Chosen People , supporters of the Universal Synarchy , Servants of the Powers of Matter , Worshipers of Jehovah Satan , Terrible Enemies of the House of Tharsis : They persecuted them over millennia , they caused the destruction of Tharshish and the public demise of the Mystery of the Cold Fire , they sought to extinguish the Lineage of Tharsis and hide the Hyperborean Wisdom , and they tried by all means to seize the Wise Sword and its Stone of Venus ; and the mind immediately flew to the Secret Cavern , and proudly appreciated the silent sacrifice of dozens of Noyos and Vrayas guarding the Wise Sword , purifying the Blood and waiting with the patience of the hunter the Lithic Sign of K ' Taagar , the racial call that authorized to go to the Abode of the Gods Loyal to the Spirit of Man ; now the Lords of Tharsis could perform the millennially desired journey if they wished : a Noyo , the Greatest of All , Lito de Tharsis , had seen the Sign and knew the Secret of the Return ; but the Lords of Tharsis would not leave yet ; they would wait yet a while longer , an instant of History , until the Final Battle ; Captain Kiev , a Lord of Venus , reported that Navutan , the Lord of the War , regarded their World as the most Real of all possible Worlds : and in that World , in this World , they would contribute to play a leading role in the last Battle of the Essential War , along with His Envoy , the Great White Chief , the Lord of the Absolute Will and Courage ; and there were the Lords of Tharsis going , towards a megalithically liberated area by the Hyperborean Wisdom of the white Atlanteans , a place where they would resist with the Wise Sword until the days of the Final Battle ; and thus the mind returned , nourished with Determination and Courage , to the Men of Stone that were moving away from the Spanish coast in a frigate of the fleet of the Welser .
Fifty-Seventh Day
Barely out at sea , the ships of Georg von Speyer and Nikolaus Federmann were struck by terrible storms ; it seemed as if the entire nature , as if the Creator himself had proposed to sink that fleet . At last , a miracle , and the no less miraculous skill of the captains , prevented the shipwreck and made it possible for them to dock in the Canaries , where they waited for better winds to complete the journey . Already in Coro , von Speyer , whose ambition for gold matched its limitless courage , organized an improvised expedition of four hundred men and immediately set off for the South of Lake Maracaibo , a place where certain local legends placed a very rich , and nonexistent , city . He left his Lieutenant General in charge of travelling to Santo Domingo to bring what was missing and reach him in the mountain ranges of Carora . But Nikolaus Federmann , who was plotting with the Lords of Tharsis , far from fulfilling these orders also prepared to march heading south , but taking a route much further to the West , following the indication of some indians who claimed to have seen stone constructions .
For this purpose , he moved to Cabo de la Vela , on the coast of the Sea of the Antilles , and embarked to Santo Domingo , leaving the Lords of Tharsis with Captain Antonio de Cháves and the Catalan soldiers . Soon returned Federmann accompanied by eighty men , thirty horses , supplies and fresh food , joined them , and departed for the South West , in open contradiction to Von Speyer ' s instructions : instead of two Dominican friars there were now three , for the Lady , Violante de Tharsis , had insisted on traveling disguised in that way , claiming that “ the dangers that would lie in waiting alone in Coro would surely not be less than those suffered by their relatives in the expedition ”, an argument that convinced the unpredictable Men of Stone .
If Von Speyer ' s excursion could be considered improvised , and scarce of men and means , Federmann ' s enterprise was simply exiguous : little could do their hundred men and fifty horses against the unspeakable dangers that lurked
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