Mandraki Bay: The Goddess from the Turquoise Sea & Other Short Stories

By Diana Archer

Diana Archer has produced an extraordinary book of short stories with an historical content, which is powerful and entertaining. Not this a book of Self awareness of the usual genre, but instead, it abounds with tales of passion and sexual adventures enacted by those who learn from each other to-day, the secrets of the gods and goddesses of the past.Thrown into this potof alchemical flames, is the story of Valetta who has to learn the secret to survive when her husband,the Magician, gives her to the Alchemist.She has to learn the lessons which will take her from victim to master of her own universe.

A fascinating set of mystical tales which make for thought provoking reading and fun too, for those who like a sexy but edifying tale. Commended as a good read.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Dec 19, 2007
• ISBN: 9781467019620

Diana Archer

Diana Archer is an artist whose paintings specialize in mediterraean colours, which are inspired by her travels abroad. She teaches Art in Florence and Mycean Greece, and has been writing since learning to meditate in the 1980's. Through years of personal development in Self awareness, Mandraki Bay if her first book of short stories. Diana lives in Oxford, England. Her paintings can be viewed on the following web-sites: www.geocities.com/diana_archer www.untitled-gallery.co.uk

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Contents

Author’s Note

The Magician

Seeking the Magician

Mandraki Bay

The Goddess from the

Turquoise Sea

An Oriental Affair

The Moor

Erkan

Finding the Magician

Valetta and the Coloured Doves

Introduction:

Act One

Act Two

About the Author

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In memory of my Mother

Margorie Winifred Archer

of a nature so kind and generous.

Author’s Note 

Mandraki Bay is a collection of short stories completed over a period of ten years. It recounts the lives of several young women who set out to find adventure and love in many different lands. Each location has a strong resonance to the past; the distant past.

The Goddess from the Turquoise Sea is based in the present but also in the cult of the goddess Aphrodite, about 3000 B.C. Her energy is still strong in certain parts of Rhodes and so imparts her wisdom to the sensitive female character who acts on the knowledge and wisdom received by re-enacting the sexual interplay between the present and past devotees of Aphrodite , the goddess of Love.

The past is always with us for those receptive enough to understand this truth.

Sometimes the meeting with another sensitive soul who carries the distant past with them can result in powerful reunion of mind and body. In Erkan the Turkish man who intrigues the female character creates a situation of immense power when they meet in the ancient bazaar of Fethiye. A whole landscape of colourful markets merges from the past, with cargo landing in the harbour from the rich ports of Venice or Constantinople. They are both lost in time as they impart knowledge to each other of a time when they were husband and wife travelling across the desert, tattooed as the custom with their tribe, and enjoying their adventures together, over the dunes and oases of sandy desert.

The Oriental Affair is an earlier story in these tales of a certain genre ie; of living out passions now, in our time, which have a strong resonance to past encounters in previous centuries. In this story, set high above the Atlantic Ocean, between Europe and Atlanta, U.S.A.,a man and woman meet flying high in the sky, their plane flying between two continents. They are drawn to each other in an irrisistable and powerful way, as easy as when they were young Tibetan acolytes; Tibetan boys living on the mountain and happy in their early lives together and with their chosen path as devotees of the Buddha.

There is also another theme which threads itself through these short stories, for The Magician and Valetta and the Coloured Doves" are set in the eighteen century,(in Paris or Prague, the location is uncertain.) These two stories tell the same tale in different ways.

The stories are about Alchemy.

In both stories the magician gives his wife away to the Alchemist. In The Magician he has not taught his wife properly and this action causes the downfall of each of them. In the second story, Valetta, his wife has understood how Alchemy works; how knowledge and more importantly Self-knowledge, allows the universe to do your bidding, so one is no longer the slave to other people’s wiles.

She has learnt how to master her own feelings and emotions and, instead, to put this to good use, by harnessing her own power and not doing what others want her to do.

It is a hard lesson to learn and in some ways the meetings with lovers from the past in each of the stories subtly adds, over all, to the knowledge that had to be acquired, if the book is seen as a whole piece of work.

In acquiring the knowledge