Two time

Chapter I

In the fullness of time. Saba Tamac is the undisputed cacique of the Chibcha peoples. Gone is the time of his appointment, which was to last only a short time. But he succeeded by dint of pleas and promises, giving in much and always compromising, to live in something resembling peace. Creating the concept of resignation between one and the other. Initiating a fruitful trade with the distrustful Timotocuicas. Bringing precious foodstuffs from the fertile low valleys. Seeking to cement this union, he asked for and succeeded in marrying Hialpeca, the second heiress of the Timotocuicas.

He established peace with his very dangerous neighbors to the south, the Inca lords, always ambitious, always demanding, and unexpectedly achieved the unthinkable. Defeating the Carib guerrillas. Managing to take prisoner the most beautiful and perfect woman he had ever seen. Princess Blue Bird. No one could object to his intentions; he fell in love with her. Then Saba Tamac also betrothed Princess Blue Bird. He did not tell anyone, but he found it necessary to beg for consent in secret for this marriage, since he was already married to Altulay, the youngest of the Inca princesses, direct heir of the great lord Manco Capac, who supposed that there would be no more links between this supposedly powerful lord of the Chibchas....

Things were getting better and better and it was even heard from one and all that the government of Sabac Tamac was not all bad, and the Chibcha people could expect to live in peace and prosperity.

Then one day with a serene sigh Sabac Tamac dedicated himself to wait for the heirs and in the meantime he was organizing his government action. Structuring the gold trade, controlling as far as he could the High Priests, who found it difficult to conceal the hatred and disgust that the innocent and inexperienced great Cacique inspired in them. He planned very efficiently the sacred activity of agriculture, always taking care to accept the invitations of more Inca alliances.

The moons waxed and waned, the cold came and went; the crops bore fruit and his subordinate caciques began to have their heirs. Saba Tamac also began to receive his. Hialpeca was giving birth one after another to her four descendants, who bore the inscrutable look of the Timotocuicas and the Chibcha industriousness. Altulay also gave birth to her daughters, who grew tall and stylish, with an unaltered fondness for Inca customs, passion for mathematics, medicine and astronomy. Finally Ave Azul, in spite of the attempts, of the propitious hours did not give birth, neither male nor female came,