Adventures in My Beloved Medieval Alania and Beyond: A Time-Travel Novel Set in the 10th Century Caucasus Mountains
Author: Anne Hart
Desc: This Medieval Princess in the Caucasus Mountains Seeks to Do Acts of Kindness My life adventure is resilience and to find a voice that resonates all of my confidence. Now in my youth just before I will become sixteen years of age my confidence speaks all about lighting a wonderful brightness and walking out of the darkness of insatiable banalities. With the renewal of spring the world is repaired and the gardens bloom in my magnificent Alania. I walk up steep hills and ride far to remember each intimate glimpse of blooms on trees and to listen as waterfalls whisper. We have come up here all the way from Sarkel to remain here in the mountains close to my childhood home. To insure my confidence my voice and my resilience here I light the eternal flame to brighten the damp room. I am Raziet now called Serakh. I am Karachaian-Balkarian and from my grandfathers of sweet Alania. I am partly Khazar and partly from the peoples that dwell by Mount Elbrus. I am all of them all mixed together for generations. My many ancestors came from Persia the Kavkaz the Steppes and beyond where the sky rides the moon. I am the tamga of the horse the orchards my pet wolf and the open grasslands. And today I am here not where the Volga meets the Caspian but with our friends and my cousin breathing deeply the sparkling air beneath my Mount Elbrus. We wait in our aoul. We are all of my magnificient Alania and here now in this land of orchards to the north the scent of the birch trees the patina the starlight my venture value and vision. Sit at my table and experience the eternal light of Khazaria and the rest of these mountains and rivers from the Caucasus to the seas of Pontus and Meotis. We are all one from many in the joy of life and we are here to do acts of kindness.