4 - The Defeat of the Ancient Ones“IN THE DAYS BEFORE the lands of the outer world were born of the sea, before even the Land of the Sun (Mu) and the Land of the Sea (Atlantis) arose from molten rock and sand, there was land here in the far south. A sere land of rock plains, and swamps where slimy life mated, lived and died.
“Then came the Ancient Ones from beyond the stars. Their race was already older than this earth. Their wise men had watched its birth-rending from the sun. And when their world perished, taking most of their blood into nothingness, a handful fled hither.
“But when they climbed from their space ship it was into hell. For they had gained, in place of their loved home, bare rock and stinking slime.
“They blasted out this Tav and entered into it with the treasures of th
