Eye of Saturn
The Daughters of Saturn
Book One
Idalita Wright Raso
Genre: Vampire/Horror/Romance
Publisher: Solstice Publishing
Date of Publication: 02/23/2016
ISBN: 978-1-62526-334-6
ASIN: B01BX1G8L4
Number of pages: 371
Word Count: 93,774
Cover Artist: Idalita Wright Raso
Book Description:
Blood is the seat of the soul...
Step inside the world’s oldest and darkest religions—Saturn worship, filled with blood rituals, human sacrifices, she-demons, and black magick.
Set in medieval Spain. Felipe de Hayos, the son of a wealthy statesman is forced to marry a mysterious Moorish woman named, Lilith Al-Salameh. But Lilith is hiding a dark secret. She is actually Saturn's Immortal High Priestess, and plans to transform Felipe into an immortal, like herself.
However, Lilith’s plans are dashed when a family friend and her daughter, Zaybeth Castile arrive at the de Hayos estate. It is love at first sight for Felipe and Zaybeth. Learning of her husband’s betrayal, Lilith plots the lover’s destruction and calls upon the Daughters of Saturn to open the Eye of Saturn—cursing Felipe into a vampire for five-hundred-and-fifty years and Zaybeth into the only one who can destroy him.
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/hUN63_EXIWU
Excerpt
After HIS long
slumber, Saturn, the Great Father, awoke and opened HIS all-seeing Eye. Staring
out into the black cosmic abyss, the god spoke in a thunderous voice.
“Sapirla ne’kab
vitoar zop’kab shael!” (Blood is the seat of the soul!) Saturn’s words had
awakened the void and breathed life into the universe, thus marking the
beginning of time.
Saturn then
waved HIS golden scythe, sending powerful lightning bolts streaking across the
vast universe. Dust particles swooshed and swirled while elements joined
together, until they formed an infinite number of luminous stars, nebulae, and
planets. Saturn made HIS planet sixth—HIS sacred number, HIS seal.
Everything in
the cosmos bore Saturn’s seal. In some galaxies HIS seal was symbolized by a
six-pointed star. In other realms the sacred number was depicted as a hexagram
or a black cube. It was a number—six hundred and sixty-six. This sacred number
was the very fabric upon which the universe was built. It was a powerful,
magickal mathematical equation and the perfect construct for an invisible,
inescapable matrix—that placed all beings great and small, rich and poor, free
and slave under HIS control.
To oversee the
countless worlds in the universe, Saturn created a legion of gods in HIS image.
They resided within the rings around HIS planet, forming the Council of Gods.
Saturn selected forty-two principal gods to act as overlords, among them was
Apollyon, whom the Great Father affectionately called, Pluto.
Saturn extended
HIS hand and a glorious band of light flooded the cosmos. Out of the wondrous
light, a winged figure emerged. The majestic white wings of this magnificent
being opened up like a blossoming flower—it was a woman. Her skin was a
translucent, icy, blue. She wore a loosely draped, sheer white sheath that
barely covered her flawless, round breasts. A halo adorned her head as her long
white hair cascaded over her shoulders. Upon her neck she wore a gold
six-pointed star.
“You are my
daughter, and I shall name you, Isis.”
“Salzol ShBThAI!
Salzol ShBThAI! Salzol ShBThAI!” (Hail Saturn! Hail Saturn! Hail Saturn!) Isis
said in Solsatihel, the language of her Father, Saturn—the first language of
the gods and of the universe.
Saturn stretched
forth HIS hand and this time two winged, translucent, icy, blue figures
emerged—Asira and Dusana. Asira, a raven-haired beauty and the taller of Isis’
two sisters, held on tightly to Dusana’s hand. The ethereal specters bowed
before the Great Father and embraced their sister.
“Daughters, I
empower you with the gift of immortality, the power to heal, create, destroy,
and the ability to travel through time and space. As my daughters, you are my
messengers—my angels.”
Saturn’s scythe
began emitting beams of electrical energy. The rays of energy bathed the
sisters in a blue light.
“Go forth and
transcribe my laws, sacred ceremonies, prayers, and spells into sixty Sacred
Scrolls. So that every being in the cosmos may know that I am their god and how
to exalt me, and keep my laws. You three shall become the guardians of the
scrolls.”
Saturn held out
HIS hand to Isis. Sa’hal!” (Come!)
Isis placed her
hand in her father’s and then vanished, arriving on Rhea, the planet Saturn’s
second largest moon.
“Isis, being my
eldest daughter, I bestowed upon you all wisdom so that you may intercede on my
behalf. I am entrusting you with all of my magickal knowledge,” the Great
Father decreed.
Isis listened
carefully to her father’s words, meticulously recording HIS every magickal
secret. She fashioned them into the Six Forbidden Scrolls. Raising her arms
upward, Isis summoned the magick of the universe. Sorcery bound the scrolls and
funneled them inside six solid gold cylinders. Sparks flew as an invisible hand
engraved the cylinders with Saturn’s insignia—a scythe inside a six pointed
star resting on a flat, black, onyx stone.
Isis knew the
Forbidden Scrolls had to be protected. Anyone armed with the scrolls’ magick
could open Saturn’s all-seeing Eye and create or destroy an entire universe,
transform beings, unleash the Judgment Seat to punish anyone who opposed
them—or far worse! They would have the power to send Saturn into an eternal
sleep and, ultimately, control the universe.
Isis hid the
scrolls in the last place anyone would go looking for them—deep inside Pan, the
oddly-shaped, innermost of the planet Saturn’s moons.
Although Saturn
had created an infinite number of planets, there was one planet, in particular,
the Great Father favored more than the others—Earth. It was HIS grandest
creation. Saturn generously filled the planet with animals of every kind,
beast, and fowl. HE gave the lands life-sustaining water and lush vegetation,
but something was still missing—a caretaker.
Crafted in the
image of HIS daughters—beautiful and beguiling—Saturn created woman and made
her Earth’s mother. HE gave woman HIS sacred number—six, and vested her with a
special gift, the power of creation. In time, woman gave birth to man, and like
woman, man’s number was also six. Their off-spring was also given Saturn’s
sacred number.
Thus, the human
covenant with Saturn, like all beings of the universe, was six hundred and
sixty-six. The number of man’s Third Eye, his spirituality—his direct
connection to the creator. Now man was a part of Saturn’s matrix.
Isis, Asira, and
Dusana obeyed their father’s commandment and taught man the importance of
keeping Saturday, Saturn’s Sabbath Day, Holy and Saturn’s sacred rituals, which
often required human sacrifices and the drinking of blood.
“Sapirla ne’kab
vitoar zop’kab shael!” (Blood is the seat of the soul!)
Saturn was so
pleased with Earth and man, HE spent the first millennium residing on the
planet as a man-god, making HIS home at the summit of the world axis—the North
Pole. The time Saturn spent on Earth was known as the Golden Age. During this
period, there were no wars, famine or disease. Mankind lived peacefully in lush
fertile lands of flowing milk and honey.
About the Author:
Idalita Wright Raso grew up in Ohio. She is an established news reporter/photojournalist and has worked for the Lake County Gazette in Jefferson, Ohio. Currently Idalita is contracted with Solstice Publishing. Eye of Saturn: The Daughters of Saturn Book One is her debut novel.
Idalita has a deep interest in astronomy, mythology, science fiction, the occult, and horror. Her love for writing came after reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Her love for vampires came the moment she read Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
The Eye of Saturn is a four part series. Currently Idalita is working on book two, which she hopes to release spring 2018.
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An interesting excerpt.
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