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This is Ludmila Filipova’s forth novel. The researching on its topics took mote than three years and traveling the territory over of seven countries. The idea for the novel had been born under the ground, at the lowest point on the Balkan Peninsula that a human could reach to.
A highly advanced Thracian civilization disappeared from the earth 5500 years ago, as if it had been swallowed up by the Apocalypse. The Apocalypse as described in the Revelations of St. John – the most enigmatic and complex book in the Bible – may already have happened. It may indeed have sent the first people to the darkness of the bowels of Underworld. And what would be the consequences for the New World if that really had happened? Is it possible that Jesus Christ was not the first God’s son? And that we all know his twin brother?
Thousands of years later, a young woman, Vera Kandilova, following the faint traces of the Thracian Orpheus, descends into the deepest cave in the Balkans, called the Devil’s Throat. Centuries’ old legends and papers tell of how the Rhodope singer, Orpheus, descended into the Underworld and on his return, endowed with unrecorded wisdom and strength, he left for Egypt. Even Ovid described how the wise man returned to the Upper ground by a declivitous path from the earth. Since then the river to the cave has taken thousands of tons of trees, rubbish, people and animals, but nothing has ever come out of it again, as if it has no bottom. Vera is the only person who will learn its secret.
The story begins at the end of the Second World War in Berlin. The Red Army has entered the German city and occupied Hitler’s third bunker containing many hidden and priceless exhibits from the Berlin Museum. That same night a fire takes hold in the control tower and the building burns down. The skeletally thin figure of a young boy jumps from his place of concealment in the wall and runs to the nearby river. A Russian officer shoots at him takes from his hand a small amulet bearing the figure of a crucified man. Above the cross there are 7 stars, below there is an inscription with the name, Orpheus. The army left for Moscow.
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