Ancestors of Avalon. Marion Zimmer Bradley

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      Reualen – of Alkonath; Priest of Light, husband of Sahurusartha

      Sadhisebo and Saiyano – saji priestesses in Timul’s Temple, skilled in herblore

      Sahurusartha – of Alkonath; priestess of Light, singer, wife of Reualen

      Stathalkha – of Tarisseda Ruta; Third Guardian of the Tarissedan Temple, a powerful sensitive

      Timul – of Alkonath; second to the high priestess of the Temple of Ni-Terat in Alkonath, head of the Blue Robes in Belsairath

      TJALAN – Prince of Alkonath; leader of the colony in Belsairath, cousin of Micail

      Valadur – of Mormallor; a Grey Adept

      Valorin – of Tapallan; priest of Light in the Temple at Alkonath, a naturalist

      Vialmar – of Arhurabath; an acolyte, betrothed to Cleta

      HEAVENLY POWERS

      Banur – the four-faced god, destroyer-preserver; ruler of winter

      The Blood Star – Mars

      Caratra – daughter or nurturing aspect of Ni-Terat, the Great Mother; Venus is her star

      Dyaus – the Sleeper, also known as the ‘Man with Crossed Hands,’ the force of chaos that brings change; sometimes referred to as ‘That One’

      Manoah – the Great Maker, Lord of the Day, identified with the sun; ruler of Summer, and with Orion (‘The Hunter of Destiny’)

      Nar-Inabi – ‘Star Shaper,’ god of the night, the stars, and the sea; ruler of harvest time

      [A note on Atlantean astrology: Four millennia ago, the sky was different in many ways. Due to the precession of the equinoxes, for instance, the solstices fell in early January and July, and the equinoxes in early April and October. The signs of the zodiac were also different, so that the winter solstice occurred when the sun entered Aquarius, and the spring equinox when it entered Taurus. The constellation names, in the Sea Kingdoms and the ancient civilizations around them, were different as well.]

      Ni-Terat – Dark Mother of All, Veiled aspect of the Great Mother, goddess of the Earth; ruler of planting time

      The Peacemaker – Virgo

      The Sorcerer – Saturn

      The Sovereign – Jupiter

      The Torch – Leo, also called the Scepter or the Great Fire

      The Wheel – Ursa Major, also called the Seven Guardians or Chariot

      Winged Bull – Taurus

       PLACES IN THE STORY

      Ahtarra – capital city of Ahtarrath

      Ahtarrath – the last isle of the Sea Kingdoms to fall; home of the House of the Twelve (acolytes)

      Ahurabath – an isle of the Sea Kingdoms

      Alkona – capital of Alkonath

      Alkonath – one of the mightiest of the Ten Island Kingdoms, famed for its seafarers

      Aman River – the Avon, in Britain

      Amber Coast – coast of the North Sea

      Ancient Land – ancestral realm of the Atlanteans, located somewhere near what is now the Black Sea

      Atlantis – a general name for the Sea Kingdoms

      Azan – the ‘Bull-pen,’ territory of the five tribes of the Ai-Zir, from Weymouth northeast to the Salisbury Plain in Wessex, Britain

      Azan-Ylir – capital of Azan, modern Amesbury

      Beleri’in [Belerion] – modern Penzance, in Cornwall

      Belsairath – an Alkonan trading outpost where Dorchester is now

      Belsairath fortress – Maiden Castle, Dorset

      Carn Ava – Avebury

      Casseritides – ‘Isles of Tin,’ a name for Britain

      City of the Circling Snake – capital of the Ancient Land

      Cosarrath – an isle of the Ten Kingdoms

      Hellas – Greece

      Hill of the Ghosts – Hambledon Hill, Dorset

      Isle of the Mighty, Isle of Tin, Hesperides – British Isles

      Khem – Egypt

      Mormallor – one of the Ten Kingdoms, called the ‘holy isle’

      Olbairos – an Ahtarran trading station on the continent

      Oranderis – an isle of the Sea Kingdoms

      The Sea Kingdoms – the islands of Atlantis

      Tapallan – an isle of the Ten Kingdoms

      Tarisseda – an isle of the Ten Kingdoms

      The Ten Kingdoms – the alliance of Sea Kingdoms that replaced the Bright Empire

      The Tor – Glastonbury Tor, Somerset

      Zaiadan – a land on the coast of the North Sea

       PROLOGUE

       Morgaine speaks…

       The people of Avalon bring to their Lady their troubles, both great and small. This morning the Druids came to me to say that there has been a rockfall in the passage that leads from their Temple to the chamber that holds the Omphalos Stone, and they do not know how it is to be repaired. Their numbers here are small now, and most of those who remain are old. So many of those who might have renewed their Order were killed in the Saxon wars or have gone instead to the monks who tend the Christian chapel that is on that other Avalon.

       And so they come to me as they all come to me, those who remain, to tell them what they must do. It has always seemed odd to me that the way to a mystery that is buried so deeply in the earth begins in the Temple of the Sun, but they say that those who first brought the ancient wisdom to these СКАЧАТЬ