Earth from the beginning of time... In the fourth book of Alexander Prozorov’s large-scale epic “The Mortal Guard,” the main characters learn about what the actual history of the Earth and man on it is. There were times when human civilization did not yet exist, and people were just one of the creations of another - much more ancient civilization, which reigned on Earth for millions of years. In cave paintings that have survived to this day, on the walls of the ancient pyramids of the Aztecs and Mayans, in ancient legends and fairy tales have preserved vague fragments of the story of people of the past about those who created them and commanded them. About those whom the first people called their gods. And these gods were by no means humanoids...