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      Foreword

      Hello dear friend! Before you get acquainted with the reality of this fantasy world, I would like to share with you my observations that contributed to the creation of this work, fiction or alternative universe – whatever you want to call it. Although some of the research and interpretations below may seem unreliable or dubious, they still inspired me to write a little story with their unusual content. Should we take this story seriously? You decide!

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      A long time ago, our planet looked different than we are used to seeing it today. Two hundred and fifty million years ago, on Earth in the middle of a single World Ocean, instead of the current continents, there was only one supercontinent that united Africa, Eurasia, Antarctica and Australia, North and South America into one whole plateau. This supercontinent is called Pangea by modern scientists.

      At the time of Pangea, life was already in full swing on Earth: its expanses were covered with the first coniferous and tropical forests, bennettite fields and other vegetation, very different from what today envelops the earth’s firmament, but it was fully populated by all sorts of insect creatures that were not similar to representatives of insects our time; other microorganisms from the ocean made their way to land and reincarnated as reptiles – the first reptiles, the same reptiles that eventually evolved into dinosaurs. And on the territories of the present continents, researchers and hunters of ancient cultures have found evidence of this in the form of preserved remains of both dinosaurs and their ancestors. And in the middle of the 20th century, during regular archaeological excavations in North and South America, other amazing finds were discovered, which, by their uniqueness, contradicted the scientific idea of the era of the appearance on Earth of the first hominids – anthropoid apes, the predecessors of homo sapiens:

      1. In the early 1930s, Dr. Hilbary Greeley Burafs, chair of the Department of Geology at Bern College, discovered ten well-preserved and a few more partially preserved human footprints in sandstone in Kentucky. They were left on the banks of an ancient river about a quarter of a billion years ago! The scientist carefully examined the tracks of a bipedal creature and only in May 1953 told reporters: «Three pairs of tracks look like prints of the left and right legs of a person. The distance from track to track is 45 centimeters. The footprints are parallel to each other, and the distance between the footprints is the same as that of an ordinary person. But man, according to the data of modern science, appeared in these places only one and a half million years ago!»

      2. Amateur archaeologist William J. Meister traveled with friends on June 1, 1968 to an excavation site called Antelope Springs, located northwest 70 километрахof Delta, Utah. On the third day, his wife and daughter discovered the fossilized remains of trilobites – ancient mollusks, the first inhabitants of the ocean. They lived during the Cambrian period of the Paleozoic era, that is, 600 million years ago. The maester broke off a piece from the rock, and then split it lengthwise with a hammer, opening it like a book. To his surprise, he found on one side the footprint of a man with a trilobite underneath. The other side of the stone exactly matched the imprint. The size of the imprint was quite consistent with the size of the foot of a modern person. It turns out that the imprints of a humanoid creature were left half a billion years before the appearance of modern man?!

      3. Volunteer archaeologists have found numerous traces of ancient man in the bed of the Paluxy River in Texas. In one place, having bulldozed the soil down to a layer of clay, they found five human footprints diagonally crossing fifteen dinosaur footprints! In the article «The Mystery of the Carboniferous» in Scientific America, anthropologist Albert Nigolls admitted that if a human or ape-like ancestor existed in the Carboniferous, the whole of geological science would be fundamentally wrong.

      4. In November 1972, English anthropologist Richard Leakey discovered a crushed human jaw near Rudolph Lake in Kenya. The age of the find is about two and a half million years, and this is the oldest find of its kind.

      5. In the 60s of the 20th century, strange stones with strange patterns began to appear on the black antique market in Peru. These stones were collected in the vicinity of the Peruvian city of Ica, at least according to those who collected them. Many collectors and hunters of ancient cultures considered these stones to be fakes, despite the fact that the engraving on the stones was not the first freshness and was clearly not made yesterday. No one was able to determine the age of the stones in a scientific way, since there was no organic matter on them, which caused great doubts about their authenticity. Strangely, there were about 50,000 of these stones made of andesite, an igneous volcanic rock, from small to huge, weighing half a ton, and for some unknown reason they were sold to collectors for a penny by local treasure hunters. If it was a whole series of fakes, then it clearly did not pay off. The architect Santiago Agurto Calvo was one of the andesite collectors and personally organized an expedition to excavate in the town of Okukahe before 40 кмIca in 1966 to verify the authenticity of these stones. He eventually discovered two specimens in burials from pre-Hispanic cultures. Professor of Medicine, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lima Javier Cabrera has identified a pattern in the images on the stones. The images are grouped in series from 6 to 200 stones, creating a coherent library. In each plot, the size of the stones changes, as well as the way the image is applied: from engraving to low relief technique. The images contain erotic scenes that are widespread in the culture of the Andean peoples, plots on organ transplants, observations of celestial bodies, hunting, animal life, including dinosaurs. The appearance of such stones called into question the whole science of human evolution and refuted Darwin’s theory.

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      I was inspired to create the trilogy «The Last Days of Pangea» by the above-described paleontological studies, which, from the point of view of certain sciences, contradict each other and may not coincide with reality or cast doubt on certain theories. And the plot of the first book – «The First Sense» – tells about the fantastic appearance of the first people in the prehistoric world and about the mysterious events that once occurred on the supercontinent Pangea.

      Retreat

      The dialogues in the novel are the conventional language of the first people – a completely unformed speech, which is partly accompanied by conventional signs and mannered hand movements.

      Prologue

      The Universe… How many secrets are in Her universe and how little I know about Her… Is there any sense in Her creation? Does She give birth to such worlds? Does life end in Her abode, or She herself does not know the final life, just as I do not know anything about Her beginning?!

      The Universe… I feel how Its dense nebulae erupt luminaries, forming innumerable Galaxies. Dispersing them among the streams of chaos and emptiness, filling absolute Nothing, She embodies in reality new dimensions and states, new forms of life and peace… What is the purpose of Her manifestations? What drives her?

      I have seen how planets are born. How asteroids collide and phenomena change shapes and structures. How comets break on stable bodies and destroy weak entities, leaving cosmic dust instead… I have found harmony and the will to accomplish. I saw the first life and accepted its sudden death. She created beings of numerous shapes and forms and taught them longevity and creation. And what is her intention? Maybe when the flame of my fire goes out, I will find myself where the fruits of the Universe take their origins, and the meaning of the worlds generated by me will become available.

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      Like all such stars, one day my Star also lit up – a gift to the Universe that created me for free or for a specific purpose, I don’t know. I remember how I felt the first warmth. As the first ray absorbed my unnatural essence. Your first warmth…

      Having flared up once, the fiery source of origins blinded the universal desert with its body and awakened the beginnings of lives in it.