Feathers & Crown

Like Hirohito of Japan, Emperor Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela XXVI is a scion of the sun. Unlike Hirohito, the legitimate heir to the golden throne of the Incas has offered to remain neutral in World War II. But one day last spring the Emperor's neutrality became strained. In fact, Huaraca XXVI got hopping mad. For continental defense purposes Ecuador had offered to lend the U.S. use of a plot of "sacred land" donated to the Emperor by the Santa Elena City Council--the very spot where the "Only Inca" had intended to build a summer palace.

Penning two wrathful letters, Huaraca XXVI signed them with the imperial three feathers and crown and sent them off to rap the knuckles of the guilty parties: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ecuador's President Carlos Arroyo del Rio. Then the imperial temper cooled. Huaraca XXVI was ready to lease his land to the U.S. for the war's duration for an "adequate rental fee."

The short, fat, dark-haired Emperor, who earns his living teaching English, is a collateral descendant of the last reigning Inca, Atahualpa. He is the self-styled spiritual leader of 10,000,000 Indians and head of the unofficial Inca Monarchist Party. Now that white men are destroying each other in a global war, the way is being prepared for restoration of Ttahuantinsuyu ("the Four Quarters of the World") to the Indians. He himself may never see that day. But to his son, Prince Calvino Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela, may come his rightful heritage: dominion over all the lands between Quito, Ecuador, and the Maule River in Chile. Virgins will light long-extinguished sacred fires. And priests will greet the rising sun with kisses thrown from their finger tips.

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