Full Description
Esoteric legends that track history across multiple continents and planes of existence
• Synthesizes ancient mythologies across time, space, and cultures to resacralize the human experience
• Written as a novella interspersed with metered quatrains in the tradition of medieval Persian belles-lettres
• Includes full-color paintings of key figures and motifs, including Sita, Yggdrasil, the Minotaur, Quetzalcoatl, and the Three Marys
In this globe-spanning chronicle, Pir Zia Inayat Khan, leader of the Inayatiyya, sets forth an astonishing sequence of legends revealing little-known connections between ancient cultures and spiritual lineages.
Framed as a dialogue between the Iranianepic poet Firdausi and his tutelary daimon, this novella follows the tradition of medieval Persian belles-lettres in which prose passages are punctuated with metered verses. The daimon reveals to the hitherto depressed poet the inner history of the world as reflected in the missions of a succession of sages moving through Earth's lands and ages. Readers will learn of the creation of the universe, the war of the angels and the jinns, the exile of Adam and Eve, and the deeds of Melchizedek and Enoch. They will also explore the rise of the Nephilim, the advent of ancient civilizations, the origins of the Abrahamic faiths, and the history of the Grail and Emerald Tablet. Beautiful paintings by Amruta Patil bring the legends to life.
The cumulative effect of the traditions synthesized here is a resacralization of the human experience across time, space, and cultures, achieved through an unexpected marriage of myth and history.
Contents
Prologue
The Deity
In the Beginning
The Hosts of Heaven
Marij
Of Angels and Elementals
Through a Glass Darkly
The Messenger
The Clayling
The Price of Pride
Paradise
A Fateful Choice
Perfect Nature Unveiled
Enochiana
Meteorites
Lapis Exilis
Forgotten Lands
A Foiled Plot
The Deluge
Towers and Caverns
Kemet
The Oak of Mamre
Order and Chaos
The Wooing of Shiva
He of the Horns
Dragonification
Ex Oriente Lux
Snakes and Ladders
The Hero Twins
The Gallows Tree
The Grail in Persia
Revolution
Iran and Turan
Daughter of Earth
Dark Allure
Solar Theology
Changing Fortunes
Visions
Trials on the Trail
The Folk of Danu
Erin
Houses at War
Westering
The Labyrinth
The Muse's Son
The Temple
The Hoopoe Plays Cupid
The Cow's Lament
The Music of the Spheres
Star Lady
Fragrant Mountain
Yunan, Iran, India
The Queen Mother of the West
The Mandate of Heaven
Burning Water
The Son of Man
The Three Marys
Balinus
Alexandria
Blood and Snow
A Grand Deception
Attainment
The Year of the Elephant
The Shining Lamp
Ascension
Sophia's People
Epilogue
Glossary
