Vulture's Kiss by Justine Saracen

Author:Justine Saracen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781933110875
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2007-08-10T05:00:00+00:00

VULTURE’S

KISS

THE IBIS PROPHECY: BOOK TWO

by

Justine Saracen

2007

VULTURE’S KISS

THE IBIS PROPHECY: BOOK TWO

© 2007 BY JUSTINE SARACEN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

ISBN10: 1-933110-87-2

ISBN13: 978-1-933110-87-5

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NEW YORK, USA

FIRST EDITION, AUGUST 2007

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CREDITS

EDITORS: JENNIFER KNIGHT, SHELLEY THRASHER, AND J. B. GREYSTONE

PRODUCTION DESIGN: J. B. GREYSTONE

COVER GRAPHIC: SHERI ([email protected])

By the Author

The 100th Generation—The Ibis Prophecy: Book One

Acknowledgments

So much to learn, it takes your breath away . I want to thank Thomas Behr for sharing his knowledge of the First Crusade, Yoni Debel for information on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Tim at DeHLTA for explaining how to blow things up. I am greatly indebted to Inga Horwood, who read the rough manuscript and critiqued me gently . Special thanks is due to gifted editors Shelley Thrasher and Jennifer Knight who, when you think you’re fl ying, get rid of the hot air without taking the wind out of your sails (and would for example NEVER stand for a hideous mixed metaphor like

that.) Thanks also to Sheri for a beautiful and insightful cover, to Julie Greystone for nipping and tucking in all the right places, to Ruth Sternglantz for Hebrew instruction, and above all to the awesome Radclyffe who keeps this whole enterprise going.

DEDICATION

To Dr. Angelique Corthals, who brought me to Egypt,

and to the Jewish-American Medical Project that brought me to Jerusalem.

DISCLAIMER

This story deals with religion, monotheisms and polytheisms. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have all made their contribution to art, learning, and the formation of cultural ideas. Each has a core of goodwill and an attempt at a just moral code. But at their fringes are the dogmatists and absolutists whose otherworldly doctrines threaten the secular values of tolerance and basic human rights.

On the hard Christian right stands the politically powerful evangelist John Hagee and his 18,000-strong congregation, who ar gue that, to fulfi ll God’s plan for the Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ, the US must join Israel in a preemptive strike against the Arab world.

Judaism, which traditionally looks to Israel as its spiritual home, has its most militant proponents among the settlers who—supported by the Israeli military—pursue what they believe is God’s plan to make all of Palestine Jewish and, in doing so, perpetuate confl ict in Israel and in the Middle East. Islam, it will surprise no one to learn, has Al Qaeda and other violent fundamentalist sects that see the West as satanic and seek to do it grave harm. In all cases, the mix of religion and politics is lethal.

This story, though fi ctional, suggests that religion be returned to where it started, in the reverence for the majestic, and sometimes vulnerable, elements of nature.

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Vulture’s Kiss

Prologue

It was of a Friday , the very day and hour of Our Lor d’s crucifi xion, that the city of Jerusalem was taken.

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