On September 8th was presented to the press the novel of fiction The Sacred Alphabet written by Gemma Nieto. The reunion took place at the Aladdin restaurant in Madrid, and consisted of a meal where the assistants could enjoy the culinary delights of Mazin, so well known to develop the falafel, the cous cous ...
Attended by representatives from the major media in the country, the author was able to fully discuss the Mandaeans and begin to make them known in Spain as she wished. The assembled journalists were very interested by this Gnostic group that still lives and the difficulties being experienced at present.
It was a nice meeting in which the author, Gemma Nieto, told us some of his interesting legends, like the alphabet, through which the novel was titled The Sacred Alphabet.
For the Mandaeans, their alphabet is magical and sacred, hence, although they communicate among themselves with Mandaean, but priests use a language much earlier, the Mandaean known as classic, which only they can understand. It is the alphabet in which their holy books are written, the entity that 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 imbued with his spirit. In fact, he became 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 the divinity, the Mandaeans are those granted to the prophet John.
The Sacred Alphabet uses its 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, Nieto Gemma'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.
"I sincerely hope that you enjoy, as we have done all those who have read it."
