The Fourth Stage on the Way Unto the Sacred Tree

A year had now been lost. He felt the need for haste. Hercules sped to his brother's help and there he finds Prometheus chained upon a rock suffering dire agonies of pain caused by the vultures plucking at his liver thus slowly killing him. On all ways of the search went on north and south and east and west the sacred tree was sought but was not found. There came a day when worn with fear and traveling he heard a rumor from a passing pilgrim that near a distant mountain the tree was to be found. The first true statement given to him as yet. Therefore he turned his feet to the high mountains of the east and hastened then his steps. Now I