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The Healer knew that the legends told to the children about fighting animals were in truth the histories of the People, passed down thus through the generations, Only upon attaining manhood and the status of the warrior, would the child learn the truth of these well-known stories. Often He had read these ancient histories, and discussed them with the priesthood. Well He knew that the name ”Serpent” stood for the earth’s sea-people who had once with their fleets ruled the oceans, and established colonies on many shorelines. He knew that the word stood for water, even as did His first name "Wako" - "Wah" meaning water and "Co" for serpent. It was a tribute to His power over the ocean when at His command it had cleansed the temple at E’acha-camac. One of His favorite books was that ancient history which had come down to His time through many ages from the day when the Red Land which had fathered the Serpents their colonies and fleets of ocean-going vessels, went down in the fury of volcanic destruction into the cold green depths of the ocean. ”Proof that I am a Serpent” by the last remaining grandson to leave the doomed homeland, with its eye-witness description by the young prince from the House of Votan, was often read by the Prophet. Yet closing its pages, He would warn the puzzled priesthood to copy it very often, sending it to many nations so that one copy might escape the flames, for when He touched it, He saw its final destruction in a holocaust which turned it to
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NE OF THE greatest miracles
attributed to the Prophet took place in Panuco along the shores of the Sunrise
Ocean.