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= Akator = Akator, also called Akakor as well as El Dorado or "the lost city of gold", is a legendary ancient city. It was featured the book The Chronicle of Akakor (1976) by journalist Karl Brugger. Akator was reportedly located in the Amazon rainforest in territory near the borders of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia, an area of South America partly mapped by the explorer Percy Fawcett.

Legend
According to legend, Akator was thought to be inhabited by the Ugha tribe, the "self-proclaimed chosen people of the gods". However, it was claimed to have been built by a superior race of human beings or interdimensional beings who helped them build a civilization to ensure their survival. The Ugha honored these people or beings as their deities. While Akakor could be as old as 7,000 years, its technology is said to a have been about 5,000 years ahead of its time. It is reported to have been a city made of solid gold that consisted of aqueducts and paved roads.

The legend of Akator was similar to legends of El Dorado, in that it was reportedly constructed of gold. The legend also refers to the existence of a crystal skull. According to the story, a crystal skull was stolen from the city and whoever returned would be granted a special power. However, according to legend, no one knew the location of the skull until the lost city was rediscovered. This revealed that it was the skull of one of the Ugha deities, the skull of an interdimensional being.

Ugha Tribe
The survival of the Ugha is said to have been because of the seclusion of Akator and the advanced civilization built there. After the deaths of their non-immortal deities, the Ugha no longer progressed and retained the way of life the interdimensional beings had taught them. Unfortunately, this led to their extinction. A Soviet force destroyed them with modern weaponry.

Religion
Originally the Ugha were a tribe of sun worshipers, much like the early Egyptians, until their encounter with the interdimensional beings. Being taught advanced agriculture and new technologies, the Ugha had accepted them as their deities, thirteen in total, making the polytheists. Even after the deaths of the beings, the Ugha continues to worship them, however, despite their history and the beings helping them, they feared their gods, refusing to even get close to the crystal skull or the central temple, where the remains of the interdimensional beings reside.

Language
The Ugha spoke an extinct pre-Columbian language known as Koihoma. It is a syllable based language, and only the remainder of the Ugha spoke in until their demise to KGB, officially making it extinct. Pieces of the language can be translated through Mayan.

Site
Located in between Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia, the city of Akator was actually built in a crater on top of the interdimensional being's flying disk. To enter the city, one had to discover a secret cave entrance hidden behind a waterfall. The entrance was dedicated to telling the story of Akator, showing its history on wall murals made of ochre, iron oxide, and charcoal. The murals tell of how the interdimensional beings came down and taught the Ugha farming and irrigation, and eventually becoming their gods. The cave was also filled with hidden compartments, where the Ugha would camouflaged themselves and attack any intruders. The crater itself sported a large clearing with a two pyramid like structures, one of them was the exit from the caves, and the other was a temple where the bodies of the beings remain. Other than the pyramids, there still remain large aqueducts and farms, however, due to is quick destruction after its discovery, no other structures can clearly be identified. The entrance to the central temple was the top in which the keys to opening the door lie beneath the obelisk, to enter, one must break of all of the stone idols which open a trap door beneath to a set of stairs the slowly begin to closes as soon as the door opens. Once past the stairs, there is a treasure room of artifacts from all over the world. These artifacts are from multiple eras including but not limited to; Macedonia, Sumerian, Etruscan, Babylonian, Early Egyptian, etc. Finally, past the treasure room is on only the center of the temple, but the center of Akator, where the Interdimensional beings rest, and the only way to get inside this room is with the stolen crystal skull. In the central rooms the beings sit on their thrones in a circle in what could be a central control room for their ship. While the legend says that Akator was a city of gold, it was not actually made of gold as the word gold can also be translated to treasure in Koihoma, which they refer their gods knowledge as.

Collapse
Akator did in fact remain standing until its discovery, the reasoning for it's downfall was because of a couple of reasons. One, after the KGB infiltrated the city, they supposedly wiped out the remainder of the Ugha tribe. And second, once the skull was return, the interdimensional beings were revived as one, and with the demise of the Ugha tribe and the long absence from its home, the newly revived being decided to start its flying disk and return back to its dimension. The removal of the base of Akator caused the walls of the crater to collapse letting in a massive wave from the Amazon, completely filling the crater and leaving behind no evidence of the city thus completely wiping out the once great city of Akator.

Conquistadors
The legend of the crystal skull being stolen actually originates from seven conquistadors led by Francisco de Orellana. Orellana and his men, originally thought to have disappeared in 1546, found Akator, they left most of the artifacts in the temple, but their big prized was the crystal skull they pulled off of one of the beings' skeletons. The skull having psychic powers, slowly drove Orellana and his men insane and turned them against each other, their deaths resulted in either the group killing each other, or killed by Indians, whatever the outcome, the Indians mummified and buried them, and likely fearing the skull, it was buried with the conquistadors for hundreds of years before its recovery.

In Cinema
Akator was featured in the movie: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull