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  • Tears from the Mother of the Sun: A Secret History of the World

    Tears from the Mother of the Sun by Khan, Pir Zia Inayat;

    A Secret History of the World

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Inner Traditions
    • Date of Publication 26 February 2026
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9798888501825
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 228x152x17 mm
    • Weight 572 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations Full-color throughout
    • 700

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    Short description:

    Esoteric legends that track history across multiple continents and planes of existence

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    Long description:

    Esoteric legends that track history across multiple continents and planes of existence

    • Synthesizes ancient mythologies across time, space, and cultures to resacralize the human experience

    • Written as a novella interspersed with metered quatrains in the tradition of medieval Persian belles-lettres

    • Includes full-color paintings of key figures and motifs, including Sita, Yggdrasil, the Minotaur, Quetzalcoatl, and the Three Marys

    In this globe-spanning chronicle, Pir Zia Inayat Khan, leader of the Inayatiyya, sets forth an astonishing sequence of legends revealing little-known connections between ancient cultures and spiritual lineages.

    Framed as a dialogue between the Iranianepic poet Firdausi and his tutelary daimon, this novella follows the tradition of medieval Persian belles-lettres in which prose passages are punctuated with metered verses. The daimon reveals to the hitherto depressed poet the inner history of the world as reflected in the missions of a succession of sages moving through Earth’s lands and ages. Readers will learn of the creation of the universe, the war of the angels and the jinns, the exile of Adam and Eve, and the deeds of Melchizedek and Enoch. They will also explore the rise of the Nephilim, the advent of ancient civilizations, the origins of the Abrahamic faiths, and the history of the Grail and Emerald Tablet. Beautiful paintings by Amruta Patil bring the legends to life.

    The cumulative effect of the traditions synthesized here is a resacralization of the human experience across time, space, and cultures, achieved through an unexpected marriage of myth and history.

    “A breathtaking, fresh, and ancient mystical biography of the world. A hypnotic weave of words and images leads us to that twilight place where history meets mystery, and tale meets truth. A tour de force where words find their place on the page with sacred inevitability.”

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    Table of Contents:

    Prologue

    The Deity

    In the Beginning

    The Hosts of Heaven

    Marij

    Of Angels and Elementals

    Through a Glass Darkly

    The Messenger

    The Clayling

    The Price of Pride

    Paradise

    A Fateful Choice

    Perfect Nature Unveiled

    Enochiana

    Meteorites

    Lapis Exilis

    Forgotten Lands

    A Foiled Plot

    The Deluge

    Towers and Caverns

    Kemet

    The Oak of Mamre

    Order and Chaos

    The Wooing of Shiva

    He of the Horns

    Dragonification

    Ex Oriente Lux

    Snakes and Ladders

    The Hero Twins

    The Gallows Tree

    The Grail in Persia

    Revolution

    Iran and Turan

    Daughter of Earth

    Dark Allure

    Solar Theology

    Changing Fortunes

    Visions

    Trials on the Trail

    The Folk of Danu

    Erin

    Houses at War

    Westering

    The Labyrinth

    The Muse’s Son

    The Temple

    The Hoopoe Plays Cupid

    The Cow’s Lament

    The Music of the Spheres

    Star Lady

    Fragrant Mountain

    Yunan, Iran, India

    The Queen Mother of the West

    The Mandate of Heaven

    Burning Water

    The Son of Man

    The Three Marys

    Balinus

    Alexandria

    Blood and Snow

    A Grand Deception

    Attainment

    The Year of the Elephant

    The Shining Lamp

    Ascension

    Sophia’s People

    Epilogue

    Glossary

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