| 1 | By the time the first wardens left and were replaced by even crueller jailers fifty of our number had died. |
| 2 | The Greys of science, the AN.NUN.AKI; |
| 3 | The ones most cruel for withholding their knowledge of cure; |
| 4 | To probe and to cut, to treat all life as you would an insect; |
| 5 | Soulless beings no greater in all the galaxy. |
| 6 | Now just sixteen hundred and twenty of our kind remained. |
| 7 | First, we were forced to make them new facilities, |
| 8 | Away from the ATLA.AN.TIS, |
| 9 | To the lands of AFRICA and the fertile LEVANT, |
| 10 | To ASIA and as far as AUSTRALIA they went. |
| 11 | To observe and probe, to dissect and analyse. |
| 12 | The AN.NUN.AKI were the first to divide us. |
| 13 | By our deformities we had become new species; |
| 14 | Same in soul and pain, but wholly different in hideous frame. |
| 15 | The highest they ranked they called the EL.OH.IM – the winged masters of which I belonged. |
| 16 | To the lowest they ascribed the rank of the DA.MEN, which were the rest on account of their disabilities of frame. |
| 17 | But to subjugate the EL.OH.IM, the AN.NUN.AKI selected EL from the DA.MEN to rule above all. |