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THE BOOK OF SHIONI AKEK
Chapter 6
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Tucantor's religion spread slowly from Mentina, hindered by the depopulation of the valley and by the Northward people's preference for personal communion with Christ rather than priestly mediation. The doctrine took root instead in the southern cities by the gulf, where remnants left from the great Nephite-Lamanite war saw in it a tool for dominating their neighbors. Tucantor relocated to the city of Hagoth and ruled there, but resistance arose.
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His armies were defeated and his priests captured, yet the victors, wanting to repopulate the region, brokered a treaty granting the Tucantorites stewardship of the sacred places for half the year. Tucantor himself, taken captive into the wilderness as surety for the covenant, died there. Hagoth thereafter operated under a strange duality of two priesthoods and two councils.
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Meanwhile, faithful Nem returned to Mentina to tend the archives, though it never regained its former prominence.
