Eye
of Saturn
The
Daughters of Saturn
Book
One
Idalita
Wright Raso
Genre:
Vampire/Horror
Publisher:
Solstice PublishingDate 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.
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.
Interview
1. Where are you from? I
am from Cleveland, Ohio.
2. Tell us your latest news? I
am finishing up Metamorphosis book
two of the Eye of Saturn series.
3. When and why did you begin writing?
I started writing short stories when I was in my teens.
4. When did you first consider
yourself a writer? I considered myself a writer when I
landed my first writing gig. It was for Word
Up Magazine, a publication out of Saginaw, Michigan.
I wrote a monthly opinion/editorial column.
5.
What inspired
you to write your first book? Well, this is an interesting story. It
started nine years ago, when three, angelic-looking; women came to me in a
dream. Shortly after that I started having odd dreams,
where these characters Felipe, Zaybeth, and Lilith came into my dreams each describing chilling
detailed accounts of the supernatural events that took place in their
lives. The dreams happened so frequently, I kept a dream diary on my
nightstand. It all started to make sense on Nov. 9, 2006, when the planet
Saturn had a hurricane type storm, where the center of the storm resembled a
human eye. I
started doing research on Saturn, the god, the myth, and the planet. I
discovered some very interesting, dark and scary facts and theories about
Saturn—both the god and the planet. It seems Saturn is tied to some rather
gruesome/bizarre blood and human sacrifice rituals. I included as much of the
history of Saturn and these rituals as I could fit into the storyline.
6.
Do you have a
specific writing style? No, not really.
7. How did you come up with the title? The title came to me, more or less. The story
is very much about Saturn and his watchful eye on humanity.
8.
Is there a
message in your novel that you want readers to grasp? Yes, but it really isn’t revealed until the
fourth book.
9.
How much of the
book is realistic?
That’s a tricky question, considering the inspiration for the story.
10. Are these experiences based on someone you
know, or events in your own life? The Eye of Saturn series is based on my
dreams.
11. What books have most influenced your life
most? Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles Dante’s The Inferno, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, King
Arthur, Homer’s epic The Odyssey, and H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and The Necronomicon, just to name a few.
12. If you had to choose, which writer would you consider
a mentor? George R. R. Martin
13. What book are you reading now? Allyson Bird’s, Isis Unbound
14. Are there any new authors that have grasped
your interest? Some
authors I came across most recently, Justin Robinson and Lauren Oliver.
15. What are your current projects? I am finishing
the fourth book in the Eye of Saturn series. Once that is complete I am
planning on writing a ghost story.
16. What would you like my readers to know?
I hope
they read the Daughters of Saturn and
continue reading the Eye of Saturn series. It’s a different kind of vampire
story. I think they will be entertained and also learn about the history of
Saturn and his influence on this planet and humanity
itself. Thank you for featuring me in your blog. It has been a pleasure.
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