thE Vangkekan Origin
In the beginning, long after the Great Flood, creatures outside the Planet Earth collected ten slaves from the riverbanks of Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates, and brought them to the paradise now known as The Forest of Evergreen in the remote town of Forest Green, Orstia, Great Archipelago of Philipdomia.
The ten were composed of five pairs of males and females and were subjected to genetic mutation by these unearthly creatures. As a result, the ten had grown a pair of wings at their backs (with varied colors) and had abundance of distinct stem cells that contributed to their immortality and exceptional strength. They were then called the Vangkekans (from the ancient alien language meaning “reborn”).
The extraterrestrials allotted five tribes for the five male slaves to protect and lead the entire paradise and be called as follows:
Datu Ilak The White of Kravena Land,
Datu Karok The Dusky of Sulabun,
Datu Saak The Red of Fegratu,
Datu Intal The Green of Asuldan, and
Datu Uliman The Brown of Kumanggi.
Each datu was assigned a spouse from the other five remaining female slaves. However, one female did not survive the genetic mutation and had died. She was supposedly the partner of Datu Ilak of Kravena. Hence, Datu Ilak was the only datu who had no immediate descendants.
For further procreation, the unearthly creatures gathered additional pairs of slaves from the middle east. There was peace and order. Growth and survival. Then, the ancient aliens thought of an army to prepare the Vangkekans for the rupture, and decided to bring more slaves. Yet again, they were subjected to genetic mutation. There were batches of slaves from the south, now known as South Africa. Some were from the east, in the south, now known as India. Some were from the beautiful mountain in South America, now called the Andes Mountains. The last group was from old Babylon. One of them was Banaak, who was consigned to assist Datu Ilak, while the extraterrestrials were searching for the perfect match for Datu Ilak (as he was the superior and most special among the five datus).
But that was the time when the ancient aliens did not return yet (and probably still searching).
However, the Mountains of Yandal served as the land mark for the ancient aliens’ space crafts. The mark is still standing today, in a form of a circle consisting of twelve separate rigid stone walls, while at the center was a small circle with four feet.
No one on Earth knows about its existence because the Forest of Evergreen was protected by an electrical field, and is the reason why it isn’t easily penetrated. The soil in the land had anti-toxin to protect the forest from any strange object, animate or inanimate, and the plants were ever-changing to confuse any stranger from entering. However, these plants, like the Ula-ula in Kravena (which was mentioned in Book 1), contained the substance resin that could heal wounds easily (like what Sophia experienced in Book 1).
The ancient aliens were in need of gold, which was more abundant in Mount Kalban than in any other place on Earth. (In Book 1, it was mentioned that Mount Kalban belonged to Jericho’s family, and Jericho’s grandfather sold it to a mining company.)
(Mount Kalban was abandoned when it caused the running out of Ovaweh Falls, which was the antidote for the deadly arrows, and the one responsible for restoring the Vangkekans’ immortality because of the scientific manipulation on the water done by the extraterrestrials. Its abandonment was one of the reasons why these intelligent life forms left and went to other places or galaxy for an alternative supply.)
But before the ancient aliens left, they were able to earmark a symbol for each datu. These symbols were of the heavenly bodies, so that the ancient aliens would always be remembered by the datus. These heavenly bodies were the ones that first fascinated each datu, upon landing on paradise (mentioned in Book 1):
The bright sun for Datu Ilak,
The twinkling star for Datu Saak,
The half-full moon for Datu Karok,
The crescent moon for Datu Intal, and
The full moon for Datu Uliman.
At the rigid stone monuments around the secreted hot spring (where the deadly arrows were dipped to kill an immortal Vangkekan) was a set of picture symbols carved by the ancient aliens. Only the five datus, if together, could decode its meaning upon the aliens’ return. Yet none of these spearheads knew of that return. No clues were left for them.
Now, the Vangkekans had to live, together, peaceably, and must keep on. They believed in One Invisible God, not the sun, not the moon, not the stars, or anything crawling, flying, or floating on land or on the water. These ancient benevolent aliens left them believing in One God, The One who’s outside time and space. He comes in the form of Energy, has Life, and is oh, so Almighty!
The Vangkekans were taught to survive, believe, and wait—wait for that one thing the ancient benevolent aliens didn’t elaborate, but which, according to them, was for the good of all.