Bull Vaulter: Alena of the Isle of Green

Bull Vaulter is an absorbing novel particularly appropriate for our time set in 2100 B.C.E. that interweaves adventure passion love wisdom and Womens Goddess Spirituality as practiced some four-thousand years ago on Keft (Ancient Crete) and Kalliste (Santorini).Ms. Tieken was inspired by the writings of the late UCLA Archeologist/Mythologist Dr. Marija Gimbutas and the excavations of Akrotiri on Santorini by Dr. Christos Doumas and the late Dr. Spyridon Marinatos as chronicled in Dr. Charles Pellegrinos novel Unearthing Atlantis An Archaeological Odyssey.Join Alena famed Bull Vaulter from Keft as she sails to the Peloponnesus for a stellar performance with her fellow vaulters from their island culture meets (under the most horrid circumstances) the Kurgan warrior Jahal studies with the famed healer Aesclevius and his herbalist wife Myra and discovers the special talents bestowed upon her by the Goddess. Alenas is an exhilarating journey that vividly describes the contrasting cultures of that Bronze Age period as it follows Cretes famous bull vaulter on her path to fulfill her fated destiny.