War's blood and fire raged across the mortal world, but the sun in the heavens rose as usual. When sunlight shone over mountains, forests, lakes, and seas, from Yunshan Valley at 18 degrees north to Cuba's Iron Bay at 21 degrees north, from tropical plateaus more than two thousand meters high to tropical rainforests at sea level, all were bathed in the radiance of the Sun God's spirit. And the devout prayers of the Taino Tribes, following the sun as it climbed into the middle of the sky, shook the clouds at the Main God's New Year rites!
"Bo'matu Yahuba Guey! Bomatu, Yahuba, Guei! Praise the great spiritual sun spirit!..."
"Bo'matu Guey Atabeyra! Bomatu, Guei, Atabeira! Praise the brightness of the Sun God!..."
The blazing Sacred Fire burned upon the red three-tiered altar, tinting every shouting, upturned Taino face a faint red. This six-meter-tall pyramid altar, like the Main God Temple behind it, had a foundation of rammed iron-rich red earth, used fired shell lime as a binding agent, and was built up from red bricks. At first glance, the style of this building resembled the three-story earthen-brick rural houses commonly seen in the late 1990s of later generations, except in a strange tower shape. Yet in this era, the appearance of this red-brick altar symbolized the "highest" construction craft on the Great Island of Cuba!
Although the scale of Iron Bay Town's pyramid altar temple could not compare with the pyramid temples on the Nahua plateau and in the Maya rainforest, which easily reached several dozen meters in height, there was no doubt that it was the tallest and most "sacred" building on the three-thousand-li island of Cuba!
The construction of this altar temple, from laying the foundation to fully sealing the roof, took nearly a year and conscripted