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D68/Y37/C23//FLASH
Yamm Kerit ben Chibcha's coronation was splendid. Never before had the
South Polar Jerusalem seen such pomp, such display of pageantry and power.
Thousands of slaves, naked and gilded and draped in jewelry and feathers,
paraded up the wide boulevard before the Imperial Palace. They drew, by
ropes of woven gold and weizmannium, glittering juggernauts. Fountains
sprayed scented wine. Chamberlains threw fistfuls of xanthic shekels to
cheering crowds.
The climax of the spectacle was the march of the anthrocyberphants,
resplendent mutated elephants whose cerebellums had been surgically
removed at birth and replaced with spheres of human brain material
cultured from clone-cells donated (involuntarily in some cases) by the
greatest scientists, scholars and intellectuals in Yamm Kerit ben
Chibcha's realm. When the anthrocyberphants were well grown and into their
adolescence, their gonads were surgically removed and replaced with a
variety of electronic implants including inertial guidance computers,
magnetic compass-gyroscopes, neural transceivers.
The anthrocyberphants pranced and tumbled down the grand boulevard before
the Imperial Palace, trumpeting melodies from Wagner, Mendelssohn, Bach,
Mozart, vain self-portraiture by Richard Strauss, erotic fantasies by
Scriabin, extended lines from Britten, discordant percussives by Edgar
Varese, all in perfect orchestral harmony, all punctuated by the sounds of
tympani, timbales, kettle-drums and cymbals held in writhing flexible
tentacles that grew from nodes at the marchers' shoulders.
Upon the silken-draped and jewel-encrusted balcony of the Imperial Palace,
the Ultimate Monarch of Laddino Imperium smiled and waved, bowed,
applauded, turned to turbaned chamberlains and grasped fistfuls of
commemorative favors to toss graciously upon the marchers and the cheering
crowds come to celebrate the grand ceremonial.
The Laddino Imperium included all of the grand Antarctic domain of the
former Israel-in-Exile and the expanded territory of Greater Hai Brasil
that had extended to claim hegemony over all of the Americas, from
Hudson's Bay to Patagonia, before falling under sway of the South Polar
nation. The Ultimate Monarch, Yamm Kerit ben Chibcha, bowed, waved, tossed
favors to the crowd. Deep in the bowels of the Earth beneath once-frozen
plains and mountains, huge gyroscopes throbbed into life.
The axis of the Earth began to shift through a lengthy and carefully
computed cycle. None but the servants and advisors of the Ultimate Monarch
had been consulted, and none but the will of Yamm Kerit ben Chibcha, the
Ultimate Monarch, was considered. The ambition of Yamm Kerit ben Chibcha
was to give every citizen of the planet Earth, every square meter of
territory, a fair and equitable access to the wealth, the beauty, the joy,
the light, the warmth of the sun.
As the huge gyroscopes whirled their massive flywheels the Earth shifted
its ancient tilt.

The fanatic hordes of Nrisimha, the Little Lion, poured from the city of
Medina in the ancient Arabian desert, conquering all before them in the