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Intertwined with the tantalizing, never-ending quest for a man's
own roots and sense of self, the novel narrates the mysterious, epic
story of the ancient people of the Alps, the untold history of mythical
Rhaetia: a land largely identified with the Rhaetian Alps, a country
that in 600 B.C. comprised what is today’s central and south-west
Switzerland, Grisons and Ticino, Liechtenstein, the entire Tyrol and
Vorarlberg in Austria, Valtellina in the north of Lombardy, and the
Adige valley in Italy. At the time of the Roman conquest it extended to
parts of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg states in Germany, south of the
river Danube, including the territories of the Vindelici people, who
occupied the northern part of Rhaetia and whose chief town was Augusta
Vindelicorum (Augsburg).
Arguably, it is the human lamp itself, the fire of sheer existence,
the barrier to our reconnection with the powerful forces of nature, and
the beyond world, that of ancestry. What is it today the Spirit of
Rhaetia? Does it still exist? Or was it just a dream in the darkness of
the night that turned into fire, exhausted itself, and faded into
oblivion?
Our times are doomed, as we are presently confronted with the most
powerful forces that blind our eyes, drain our strength, turn us into
mere cannon fodder at the mercy of the demons of modernity. Like never
before, a man's soul screams for freedom, his very flesh and bones ache
for truth; his scorching thirst for meaning is unutterable and
unbearable; he seeks for the burning sun, the cool moon, the glimmering
skies, the very earth that never changed; he turns to the land of the
ancestors for salvation, thus he turns to the everlasting and
everstanding mountains.
Now, one man will ascend them one last time, to rejoin his ancestors and meet the Almighty God.
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