Episode Eleven
MCOG OPENING THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 42s
FLIGHT OF THE CONDOR (TRACK 6) 1m 23s
In the last episode of Mysterious Cities of Gold, the children learn more about their magnificent flying machine the golden condor.
The condor helps out a village being attacked by Europeans, by scaring them off, but afterwards, Governor Pizarro learns of the condor’s presence.
After escaping again, the condor flies towards the land of the Mayas. They seek directions from Chief Kraka at the High Peak. The condor lands at the High Peak but no-one there knows the whereabouts of the land of the Mayas.
According to old Mayuka, the only man who would know is the Papa Camaillo of Puna - Zia's father, who left to find the sacred fountain of the Mayas. The party leaves the following morning, seeing Pachu's chicks en route.
PRINCIPAL THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 27s
The condor flies over a jungle, following a broad river. A huge black storm cloud gathers, but Esteban, piloting the condor, fails to evade it in time. With the cloud blocking the sun, the condor loses power and goes into a dive, crash landing next to the river. There are too many trees blocking the sun for it to take off again. A giant snake emerges from the river. Mendoza delays it with a tree branch in the face, while the party arm themselves with sticks and head into the jungle.
While running from a jaguar, they dive into a tunnel amongst the roots of a giant tree, and find themselves in a flower-filled paradise. They hear distant drums, and have warning arrows fired at them by a pair of Amazon women, who violently resist the amorous advances of Sancho and Pedro.
More women arrive, breaking up the fight, and take the party to see their Queen. Taken to the women's city, they are confronted by a bizarrely-masked priestess, Omoro, who plans to sacrifice them to appease their rain god. Mendoza tells them that Esteban can call out the sun. The priestess refuses to listen, but the Queen is curious and gives Esteban a chance to prove the claim.
CHILDREN OF THE SUN (TRACK 11) 58s
Wind and lightning springs forth, but as the priestess prepares to kill him, the rain stops and the sun emerges. The impressed Queen then welcomes them as guests.
TAO THE INVENTOR (TRACK 31) 1m 45s
The party are shown to their room and told they must stay there until the women can be sure of their intent.
The three sailors sneak out to explore. The priestess, Omoro, is still demanding their deaths, but the Queen refuses, so the priestess demands the Queen's handmaiden, Morca, as an alternative sacrifice. Morca brings the children some water, and tearfully tells them of Omoro's plans to sacrifice her, and that the priestess is plotting to depose the Queen, but cannot be removed because she alone can talk to the rain god.
Tao is suspicious of this claim and wants to see the rain god's temple. The children go there, and Tao discovers that Omoro forecasts the weather using a Hiva barometer rigged to raise and lower a mask on a totem pole. The children return to their room and meet with Mendoza. The party escape to the riverside and build a raft, but while they row away the snake emerges from the water and attacks. Before it can harm them, the serpent is killed by a spear thrown by Paola, a woman who is also aware of Omoro's evil plans. The priestess Omoro tells the Queen that Paola killed the sacred anaconda which protects the village, demanding that Paola be sacrificed to prevent the violent tempest predicted by her mask. Morca warns the Queen of Omoro's plans but can offer no proof. Mendoza dismisses Omoro's dire warnings, claiming that Esteban's powers will prevail. A deal is struck - if the tempest comes that night, the Queen must leave; if not, Omoro will leave.
Omoro returns to her temple, only to discover that her mask was rigged by Tao go give a false prediction. Realising that there will be no tempest, she flees to the belligerant tribes down river, telling them that the sacred anaconda is dead and they can attack without fear. At dawn, there has been no tempest. The tribes make their way upriver to attack. The women use the Queen's sacred mirror to reflect sunlight onto the condor, enabling it to take off and force the attacking tribes into retreat. In the air once more, the party fly north.
END THEME TRACK 36 1M 50
In our next episode, the condor flies north and dives downwards through a rainbow. It lands at the bottom of a deep hole and refuses to take off. Join us to find out what happens next as The Mysterious Cities of Gold continues…
Adapted and produced for radio from episode summaries written by Tyrone Cartwright,
Original music composed by Haim Saban and Shulki Levy and performed by Le Group Apollo
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