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    The Sun King
    The Sun King
    The Sun King
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    The Sun King

    By Gaston Derreaux

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Sun King - Gaston Derreaux

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sun King, by Gaston Derreaux

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      Title: The Sun King

      Author: Gaston Derreaux

      Release Date: April 1, 2008 [EBook #24973]

      Language: English

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      The SUN KING

      By GASTON DERREAUX

      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....

      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.

      Before 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.

      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.

      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.

      So-qi, King of Oas, sent out his armies throughout Jaffeth (China), conquering and slaying, bringing

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