| 1 | The Second Great Tribulation be the major great trials of ancestors: |
| 2 | Our second ancestors and common ancestors; |
| 3 | Our ancestors saved from death by the Sacred Visitors; |
| 4 | The giants with red skin and horns from far lands to the north; |
| 5 | Who came on craft from the Serpent Star People; |
| 6 | Who brought Second Law to country; |
| 7 | Upon the Second Great Tribulation be the great seasons of ice and snow, |
| 8 | That covered all country with death; |
| 9 | The Great Season of Ice and Cold that started 2,526 generations ago, |
| 10 | When the mountains were frozen; |
| 11 | When the great animals froze to death and died of hunger. |
| 12 | The Second Great Tribulation be the Wars of Knowledge, |
| 13 | The Wars of Magic and Wars of Spirit, |
| 14 | That came with the warming from 947 generations ago, |
| 15 | When lesser men claimed authority, |
| 16 | When men and women learnt to fear magic and power; |
| 17 | When people forgot and corrupted Second Law. |
| 18 | The Second Great Tribulation be the first great darkness, |
| 19 | That covered the whole land and the return of the cold, |
| 20 | From 731 generations to 715 generations ago, |
| 21 | Which caused many animals to die. |
| 22 | The Second Great Tribulation be the second great darkness, |
| 23 | That covered the land in dust and ash, |
| 24 | From 678 generations to 610 generations ago. |
| 25 | The Second Great Tribulation be the change position of the sun and heavens, |
| 26 | 610 generations ago, when the land on the coast became much more fertile. |
| 27 | The Second Great Tribulation be the eruptions and fire 226 generations ago, |
| 28 | That covered the south and east in ash and darkness. |
| 29 | The Second Great Tribulation be the cycles of warming and cooling, |
| 30 | Great rains and great drought: |
| 31 | The cooling from 168 generations to 131 generations ago; |
| 32 | The warming from 131 generations to 78 generations ago. |
| 33 | The great drought and darkness from 115 generations to 100 generations ago, |
| 34 | Upon the eruptions of the islands to the East; |
| 35 | The cooling from 78 generations to 58 generations ago; |
| 36 | The warming from 58 generations to 37 generations ago; |
| 37 | The cooling and drought from 37 generations to 8 generations ago; |
| 38 | And the warming for 8 generations. |
| 39 | The Second Great Tribulation be the coming of the white people, |
| 40 | Who first came to live in the east 225 short seasons ago, |
| 41 | Who first came to make their claims 12 generations ago. |
| 42 | The second group then came three seasons later; |
| 43 | The third group came one season later. |
| 44 | The Second Great Tribulation be the coming of the white merchants, |
| 45 | Who first came in great number 219 short seasons ago. |
| 46 | These men and women, honored no law but themselves; |
| 47 | These men and women were deeply infected with the mind of the greys; |
| 48 | Possessing no spirit, no respect for their own ancestors; |
| 49 | Seeking only to damage and destroy the land; |
| 50 | To kill and poison the animals; |
| 51 | To destroy law and proper civilization. |
| 52 | These men and women brought with them great sickness: |
| 53 | Sickness of spirit, which they used to infect the people with fear; |
| 54 | Sickness of mind, which they used to corrupt all forms of law and justice; |
| 55 | Sickness of body, which caused many to die after contact. |
| 56 | Wherever these people traveled, death and anarchy did follow. |
| 57 | By 185 short seasons, these white merchants had surrounded the people. |
| 58 | By 178 short seasons, the leaders of these white merchants without law, |
| 59 | Declared the people were no longer people: |
| 60 | The white people cursed the descendants of ancestors to be ghosts; |
| 61 | The leaders of the white merchants without any knowledge or respect of law, |
| 62 | Cursed the descendants of ancestors to have never existed; |
| 63 | That if any spoke up or sought to defend their country, |
| 64 | These white people without law were to treat the people as wild animals. |
| 65 | So began the great genocide by guns and murder. |
| 66 | Tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children were murdered, |
| 67 | By men without spirit; |
| 68 | By men infected by grey mind; |
| 69 | By men without honor and without law. |
| 70 | Sacred sanctuary was desecrated and destroyed. |
| 71 | Dozens of ancient tribes were taken from country. |
| 72 | Their spirits still crying in wind and rain for justice. |
| 73 | The Second Great Tribulation be the story of Redemption, |
| 74 | The gift of Third Law upon the remembrance of Yapa, |
| 75 | The Second Great Tribulation be the story of Redemption, |
| 76 | The gift of Third Law upon the remembrance of Yapa, |
| 77 | By the descendants of ancestors; |
| 78 | By the descendants of Sacred Visitors. |
| 79 | Not through revenge, but forgiveness; |
| 80 | Not through hate but compassion; |
| 81 | Not through revolution but restoration of law. |
| 82 | Know now, nothing is lost; |
| 83 | Everything is saved; Everything is remembered. |
| 84 | Everything yields but change; |
| 85 | The growth, the trials, the tribulations, the knowledge. |
| 86 | The greatest knowledge be gained from the greatest of trials. |
| 87 | The Second Great Tribulation be reason, |
| 88 | For the answer of Third Age. |
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