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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Sun King + +Author: Gaston Derreaux + +Release Date: April 1, 2008 [EBook #24973] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SUN KING *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1><big>The SUN KING</big></h1> + +<h2>By GASTON DERREAUX</h2> + +<p class="tease"><b>The people of Par'si'ya forgot their God, and +worshipped only murder, and sin. But then the +virgin Too-che gave birth to a male child....</b></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/001.png" width="700" height="374" alt="" title="" /> +<b>When the soldiers of the city Oas saw that their +King had not the backbone to enforce his own decree +when it hurt himself, they one and all took +up stones, and they stoned King So-qi to death.</b></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Before</span> the flood, even before +Egypt's greatness, the world was +divided into three main countries, +named Jaffeth, Shem and +Arabin'ya. There were other less populated +lands and places; Uropa in the +west, Heleste in the north, and the two +great lands of the far west, called North +and South Guatama.</p> + +<p>Now, at the juncture of the borders +of the three greatest countries, lay a +mighty city, named Oas. It was the +capital city of the Arabin'yan nation +called Par'si'ya.</p> + +<p>Its Temple of Skulls was the greatest +known to any traveler, but the temples +built to the god, Mazda, and his son, +Ihua'Mazda, were empty and unadorned—the +people had forgotten God.</p> + +<p>So-qi, King of Oas, sent out his +armies throughout Jaffeth (China), +conquering and slaying, bringing back +ever more skulls for the Golgotha temples, +more gold and more slaves for the +enriching of King So-qi. His harem +was the greatest of buildings of the +mighty city, and his wives beyond +man's ability to count.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Too-che</span> was one of the finest ornaments +of the city of Oas. Too-che +was slim, her breasts were two mounds +of magic, her eyes were pools of mystic +green depths, her legs were subtle, sinuous +beauty.</p> + +<p>But Too-che was a virgin, and in all +that city of a million sinful souls, she +alone held aloof from the sins of the +flesh.</p> + +<p>Which was very strange, for Too-che +became big with child, though she had +not been with a man!</p> + +<p>Which came to the ears of So-qi, +upon his great black throne supported +on a tower of human skulls, in his palace +of Gran, across from the great +Golgotha, which was built entirely of +human skulls—the skulls of people conquered +by the armies of Par'si'ya, over +which the city of Oas reigned.</p> + +<p>So-qi shook his big belly under the +lion's skin, let slip his serpent skin +headdress, and let the battle axe that +was his symbol of office drop from his +hand as he shook with mirth at the +great and thumping lie told by Too-che.</p> + +<p>"I suppose her child was fathered by +Mazda, peering into her womb with his +All-light," laughed So-qi, for in Oas it +was not the fashion to worship the God +Mazda anymore. The great skull temples +had their priests and their sacrifices, +but no more did people bow down +in the temples of Mazda, or have anything +but ridicule for those few who did +still worship in the old way.</p> + +<p>His serpent skin headdress and battle +axe scepter, too, were relics from the +past. Just as the belief in Mazda. But +more <i>potent</i> relics, by far. With them +he was the Sun King, Lord of Battles, +Master of Life and Death, Creator of +the Universe, Lord of Souls, Maker of +the Law, etc. Without them he was +just old So-qi, getting fatter and more +stupid every day.</p> + +<p>"Bring this harlot before me, to see +if she can produce a miracle to prove +her child is not a common one. If she +cannot, she will be stoned to death at +once, do you hear! I have no time to +be bothered with the lies of every sinning +woman who seeks to hide her bastard's +origin."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Asha</span>, the philosopher who had told +his king of the birth of the child, +nodded his head sadly and left the presence. +Why did kings have to get so +blown up as to be inhuman? He sympathized +with the girl and her predicament. +If it had been his to say, he +would have had the child proclaimed +divine a thousand times in preference +to shedding one drop of her blood. But +then, he had seen Too-che sauntering +home from the well, with her water jar +on her head, and her hips the focal point +of all eyes in the street. Asha smiled, +and took his grey-headed, bent, unnoticed +figure down the back streets to the +house of Too-che.</p> + +<p>As he went, he pondered gloomily on +the fate of this great city under the +heartless and ignorant So-qi. Surely +something dreadful would happen to +Par'si'ya, lying as it did at the juncture +of the lands of the three mightiest kingdoms +of the world. Jaffeth (China), +Shem (Africa) and Arabin'ya. Any one +of them could crush them, did they get +themselves organized for it. And So-qi +preyed upon them all ruthlessly, knowing +they could never stop warring interiorly +long enough to attack him.</p> + +<p>Old Asha thought of the future, +which his star studies were supposed to +give him power to foretell, and of the +great flood that was to come and wipe +out all the old boundaries and nations. +He thought of the peculiar grey-blue +sky, which the Wise men had taught +him bore up within its whirling self vast +oceans of water, waiting for the time to +drop the whirling water-shell upon them +all. He thought of Uropa, the great +land in the west, and all her peoples. He +thought of Heleste, that mighty and +gracious land in the North, and all her +beautiful and strong and courageous +people. And he thought of the two +great lands of the far west, called North +and South Guatama. And he was sad, +for they were all to die in the great +deluge to come! But the time was not +yet come.</p> + +<p>Sadly he pushed among the stalwart +copper-colored men of Oas, gazing a +little wistfully at the women's proud +breasts and the strong young thews of +their lovers beside them. If only he +were young again.... Asha sighed, +and knocked upon the low, rude door +of the house of Too-che.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">The</span> smile of the beautiful Too-che +made him welcome, very proud to +have the wise man from the court inquire +after her child.</p> + +<p>"He worries me, wise Asha," said +Too-che, moving slim and supple as a +panther to sit protectively beside the +little cradle of bent ash bows lashed together +with strips of hide. "He talks +like a man grown, and him not yet +weaned!"</p> + +<p>"Hmmm." Old Asha looked down +upon the over-large infant solemnly +looking back at him. He nearly fainted +when the tiny red lips opened, and a +strange, small voice, cultured and adult, +said:</p> + +<p>"I am not the child you see, but your +God, Mazda, speaking through the +child's lips!"</p> + +<p>Asha pondered for only a moment, +then turned in anger upon the woman, +Too-che.</p> + +<p>"I pitied you, harlot, because the +King has ordered your death if you did +not produce a miracle. But I did not +think you would hide a man behind the +child's cradle to befool me, old Asha! +What do you take me for?"</p> + +<p>Too-che broke into tears, bending her +graceful neck and sobbing to hear that +the king had decreed death for her. But +the peculiar voice came again from the +child's mouth.</p> + +<p>"Take me in your arms, Asha."</p> + +<p>Feeling very foolish, but unable to +refuse for some mysterious reason, +Asha bent and picked up the child.</p> + +<p>"O man, temper thy judgment with +patience and wisdom."</p> + +<p>Asha knew now that it was the child's +voice truly, and at last asked:</p> + +<p>"Why do you come in such a weak +and helpless guise, O Lord Mazda? I +had hoped to see a God appear in +stronger shape."</p> + +<p>"Nevertheless, through this helpless +child in your arms, this city shall be +overthrown, yourself made King of +Kings, and I shall deliver all the slaves +and strike off all the bonds from the +old time. Mazda will have this city for +his own, or it will be destroyed forever."</p> + +<p>Now Asha was filled with wonder, +and asked the babe of many abstruse +things, receiving answers beyond his +understanding. So, at last convinced, +he put the babe down, turned to Too-che.</p> + +<p>"Listen, maiden who in my eyes is +without fault. I cannot go to my King +and tell him one word of what this child +has revealed, for I would only die with +both of you as a liar and worse. You +must take this child and hide him away +from the eyes and the ears of the men +of this city. You in your innocence do +not understand the ways of kings and +courts and warriors and such things. +Flee, for if you are here tomorrow, you +will die and your child will die with +you."</p> + +<p>Asha took himself out, then, and +made his way sadly along the crowded +streets to his home. There he packed +up a few belongings and left to go into +hiding himself; for he knew better than +to try to tell So-qi any such cock-and-bull +story. Yet if he went at all to +So-qi, he had to tell something, and +either way someone would be doomed, +if not himself.</p> + +<p>Too-che took up the babe and fled +through the city by night to the home +of one Chojon, a maker of songs. This +man had long made love to her with his +poetry and his voice from afar, and she +knew he would hide her and protect her. +Her heart was in her throat, because +she wondered if he would believe in her +virtue now that she had a child, or in +her love for him when he felt that +another had given her child when he +had been denied the privilege.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Slender</span> and dark-eyed and handsome +he stood in his doorway, looking +upon this girl who had come to him +with her babe in her arms. A babe by +another! His heart was hurt, tears +came unbidden to his eyes as he turned +and allowed her to enter. For a long +time he could not speak, the shame and +the hurt and pride and the strange new +sudden emotions in him not suffering +him to talk. At last he said:</p> + +<p>"Too-che, I love you and I cannot +deny you anything. If you put this +shame upon me, I will bear it as my +own. Consider this your home, and me +as your slave. If I did not love you, I +would not bear this, but I do."</p> + +<p>Too-che saw the conflicting emotions +upon his face, how his dark red lips +struggled to remain firm, how his thin, +wide nostrils trembled, how his eyes +were wet with unshed tears, how his +shoulders bowed as with a sudden burden.</p> + +<p>"Oh my dear Chojon, I have no other +friend to whom I can turn—and that I +thought of you, who has only loved me +from afar with your eyes and your soft, +sad songs, should tell you that I bring +you no shame or insult. This is not the +child of another man, for I have been +with no man, ever. This is a child of +the legends, a son of a God in the skies, +our God, Mazda. He is a miracle, as +hard for me to believe as for you, but +it is true."</p> + +<p>Too-che could not stand the unbelieving +eyes of Chojon, who thought +that Too-che lied, and looked down at +the sleeping babe in her arms, saying +with a pitiful voice ...</p> + +<p>"Please, little stranger who talks like +a wise man, wake and tell my Chojon +that you are not the son of a man, but +the son of one whom no maid could resist +or run away from, ever. Tell him, +little one!"</p> + +<p>And Mazda heard Too-che imploring +speech of her child and made it to speak +with his own voice.</p> + +<p>"Chojon, what my mother says is +true. I am the child of the All-light, +endowed with powers beyond ordinary +men to accomplish my Lord's mysterious +purposes here on earth. Do not +hold my mother the less for my birth."</p> + +<p>Chojon sank slowly to his knees, realization +stealing over him as he heard +the adult words issue from the suckling +babe's mouth. The unshed tears began +to pour from his eyes in relief, for he +knew now that Too-che might not love +him yet as she would when she learned +love, but at least she had given herself +to no other mortal man. And the miracle +of the Child of a God there before +him lighted up his face as his inward +soul, so that he took up his lute and +lifted his rich, deep voice in a joyous +song—the Song of Zarathustra. For +the legend of their people had the name +of the babe-to-come as Zarathustra, and +Chojon knew that its name was thus, +now.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Too-che</span> dwelt for some time in the +house of Chojon, and the songs of +Chojon were circulated among all the +singers of the city, so that everyone +knew he sheltered the Child of the God, +Mazda, in his home.</p> + +<p>The songs of Chojon came at last to +the King's ears, and as one of the songs +proclaimed Zarathustra as stronger in +one finger than all the power of So-qi, +he let out a great oath and set his soldiers +to find Too-che and the babe. But +Chojon heard of the search. He took +Too-che and her babe out of the gates +in the night and went off into the forest +and joined a band of Listians, who are +raisers of goats, and a fine, strong people.</p> + +<p>Now when the search failed to find +the babe, So-qi proclaimed that every +male child of the City Oas would be +slain if the child was not found. And +within a week So-qi was sorry, because +his own wife gave birth to a little son +whose life was already forfeited by +royal decree unless Too-che and her +child were found. And they were not +to be found in all Par'si'ya.</p> + +<p>Asha, the old philosopher, who had +been in hiding all this time, now came +out of his hole and went to the King to +give him counsel.</p> + +<p>As Asha progressed through the city, +mothers with male children in their +arms on all sides were making their way +through the streets to the gates to flee +the city. For no decree of a King of +Oas may be repealed, but is law forevermore.</p> + +<p>The King sat upon his throne of +skulls, gnawing his nails off his fingers, +for he had either to slay his own son or +say that a law once made by a king +could be un-made.</p> + +<p>If he allowed the law to be thus +abused even by himself, such was the +nature of his people they would have +no respect for him, and might even kill +him for a fool who could not enforce +his own decrees when they hurt him a +little.</p> + +<p>So it was that when Asha presented +himself before the King, So-qi asked:</p> + +<p>"What shall I do, O Asha? My son +has smiled in my face!"</p> + +<p>Asha was prepared for this, and answered:</p> + +<p>"Thou shalt send me and thy son and +thy daughter's son and every male infant +to the slaughter pens, and have us +all beheaded and cast into the fire! +Otherwise it will come true as the infant +Zarathustra prophesied: his hand +will smite Oas city, and it will fall as +a heap of straw."</p> + +<p>So the king appointed a day for the +slaughter, and ninety thousand male infants +were adjudged to death.</p> + +<p>Chojon, from the safety of the forest, +made a scornful song about the tyrant +of Oas who went to war against babes, +and it was sung everywhere in the city, +and the king could do nothing about it, +for it was cleverly worded, seeming to +approve, though in satire only.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">When</span> the day for the slaughter arrived, +there were but a thousand +appeared with their babes out of the +ninety thousand adjudged to death—all +the rest having fled to the forest as had +Chojon.</p> + +<p>The King saw an excuse in this to +get out of killing his own son, and stood +pondering how to escape his own decree. +His wife, Betraj, came before +him, holding out her son, saying:</p> + +<p>"Here, oh King, take thou thy flesh +and blood and prove the inexorable +justice of the King's decrees."</p> + +<p>But the King said:</p> + +<p>"Let the officers go and collect all +the others who have fled beyond the +walls, and until all are gathered here +before me, no matter how long it takes, +let the decree be suspended."</p> + +<p>Now the God, Mazda, moved the soldiers' +minds to see that their King had +not the backbone to enforce his own +decree when it hurt himself and they, +one and all, took up stones and stoned +the King to death.</p> + +<p>Asha, standing stripped for the +slaughter, was made King by the +clamor of the men who stoned So-qi to +death.</p> + +<p>A great voice came out of the sky +and announced to the people that God +had given them a new and righteous +ruler. Asha bowed his head and accepted +the task put upon him. The +people gave thanks to Mazda, the God, +and Asha proclaimed him to all the city.</p> + +<p>Off in the forest, Too-che lifted her +eyes to those of Chojon and thanked +him for saving her son. And Chojon +touched her with his fingertips, and +kissed her on her lips, and the child +crowed lustily to see their love.</p> + +<p>These two walked through the Forest +of the Goats, Too-che bringing beauty +like a spring breeze with her, and +Chojon singing and touching his harp +with magic fingers, so that joy and love +walked before them, announcing them +to the Listians—the people of the forest.</p> + +<p>When Zarathustra, the infant child +the woman bore in her arms, lifted up +his piping voice and spoke to these rude +wild people, their worship sprang into +life—for surely these were Gods come +to them. And thus, all the people gave +up the worship of murder and became +Zarathustrians.</p> + +<p class="theend">THE END</p> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b><br /> +This etext was produced from <i>Amazing Stories</i> April 1949. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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