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Second in a trilogy of the Divine Feminine after The Secret Magdalene listed/described here.
Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria
Author: Ki Longfellow
Publisher: Eio Books
Category: Historical fiction Level: All
 From the dawn of history, countless women have marked their times in extraordinary ways. Women have been warriors, Pharaohs, popes, queens and kings, philosophers, poets, mathematicians, composers, painters, writers, revolutionaries and "witches."
But there was only one HYPATIA.
Brilliant, beautiful, accomplished and free, Hypatia of Alexandria was the last of the great Pagan teachers. Her brutal death at the hands of a Christian mob foretold the death of reason, of questioning, of reverence for nature, of the Goddess herself.
Following her acclaimed novel The Secret Magdalene, Ki Longfellow now offers a stunning portrait of the life and death of Hypatia of Alexandria.
No true likeness remains of Hypatia. What we have is imagined. The most famous "portrait" is in the work of Raphael: his astonishing "The School of Athens." Painted on a wall in the Vatican a thousand years after her lifetime, Hypatia is the only woman represented in a gathering of the West's greatest ancient philosophers and scholars. Draped in pure white, she stares out at us over the centuries: young, beautiful, alone.
To some she was a witch, deserving of her fate. To some, her death signaled the end of Hellenism, of reason, of asking questions and searching for answers. To some, she was criminally put to death at the hands of fanatical Christians and their jealous bishop. To some, her murder was mere bad luck: wrong place, wrong time. And some wish to believe she was the last of the "pure" scientists. Whatever pure science is, it did not exist in 400 CE. Mathematics mingled with divination, cosmology and astronomy went hand in hand with astrology. Alchemy was a secret "science" that did indeed work with the transmutation of metals, but its deeper truer purpose was the transmutation of the spirit. In the mystery teachings, and Hypatia was a leading teacher of the ancient mysteries, alchemy was practiced with her inner circle in an attempt to reach the Divine.
Author's Notes: What then can a novelist say of Hypatia? In my case, I studied what she studied, researching her time and her place, read the letters of Synesius...and imagined myself Hypatia. If the woman who invented herself under my hand is anything like the woman who invented herself in an Alexandria fast dimming under vast black wings hovering over bright cosmopolitan streets, I shall be surprised but very pleased. What I knew for sure about her told me who she might be and how she might have conducted herself. What I knew for sure of her times told me what she endured. That she taught for as long as she did in these circumstances speaks of public love and private courage.
If she was not anything like in my pages, then she is my Hypatia and I came to love her with a sister's love and to grieve even now at the passing of so brilliant a beacon.
Ki Longfellow is represented by Susan Lee Cohen at the Riverside Literary Agency, 41 Simon Keets Road, Leyden, MA 01337
Tele. (413) 772-0067
Fax. (413) 772-0969
Email. rivlit@sover.net
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