About mandaean people

Hardly are about 2,000 of the 50,000 who lived in Iraq. Those who could flee the war have taken refuge in countries like Australia, England or the U.S., who have not accepted without much hesitation. Although they have been persecuted throughout their history, are now about to disappear due to religious intolerance.

The Mandaeans are the last group Gnostic before Christianity was born and still continues to practice their rituals as they did formerly.

For them, their alphabet is magical and sacred, hence, even communicate with each other with the Mandaean, the priests use one language much earlier, the Mandaean known as classic, which only they can understand. It is the alphabet they are written in their holy books, among which is the Ginza, which means treasure.

They also use the letters of their alphabet to write spells and incantations in small bowls, that are like bowls of soup, do in order to ward off the demons of the houses to stop peaceful families living inside. One of these bowls is the demon-traps used in the novel as a theme throughout the plot.

The Mandaeans are rooted in antiquity dating back to Egyptian times and lived in Jerusalem during the first century AD, when John the Baptist preaching in the Jordan River. They claim they knew him and that part of their liturgy is infused with his spirit. In fact, he became in his fourth and final prophet, and say to him who came to earth to heal the sick and raise the dead. Almost all of the Christian tradition attributes to Jesus, except for the divinity, the Mandaeans are those granted to their prophet John.

The Sacred Alphabet uses their rites and customs to take the reader by the hand in a work of thrilling action can not stop reading. However, quite unlike other works of this type, Gemma Nieto's novel is well grounded in a solid documentation that led him to gather more than two years. All the scenarios mentioned in the book are true and it is very difficult to separate fiction from reality because sometimes the novel becomes more credible that the same reality.

This is a work that absorbs the reader from the outset and not allowed to leave the reading to the end, a novel in which the action is perfectly dosed and the plots are intertwined with such mastery that the only thing that the reader can make is ... read.