Historical Novels

The Chronicles of the Stone (Book 2)

Song of the Whale

The Chronicles of the Stone (a series of 5 novels)

In writing the Chronicles Barry Brailsford accepted a great challenge. He decided to carry his archaeological knowledge, historical research and his understanding of the ancient lore into a novel to share the story of the past with greater freedom. Truth and fiction are exciting partners within these pages, for all is paradox when we walk the rim of the circle. There is no beginning and no end, just the journey.

In the days before the Inca and Aztec nations, a world existed that gave birth to peoples who sailed the Pacific with a message of hope. They challenged the darkness with light. They were the Polynesians who settled the Pacific with incredible feats of navigation, unsurpassed in the history of humankind.

 

Yet, perhaps their greatest legacy was the creation of a society that lived in peace for 2,500 years.

Their world without war has been forgotten, set aside by the tragedy of recent centuries that sundered their lives with warfare so savage it tore apart the Pacific past. Yet, evidence of that ancient world of peace is being resurrected by modern archaeology. So we walk into these stories from the province of science. But let’s be clear about the Chronicles — they are historical novels that many class as ‘fantasy’. However, others leave space for the tohunga and shaman to walk the mystery that is evident here.

At the core of this journey is a dilemma that has consumed the minds of philosophers since the oldest of times — the clash of the darkness and the light. Reducing that issue to its impact on our lives we walk with those who find the courage to walk the ways of peace amidst turbulent tides of war. They carry no weapons and deal not in death. Their power stems from compassion and the sacred ways of the Ancients. Their wisdom is founded in the magic of the mystery of cosmic lore.

What seems lost is not forgotten! When you walk these trails you walk into yourself. The journey is the destination.

The Song of the Whale

Utini, Hera and Eroa gather about them those cloaked in compassion to challenge the waves and reach the distant islands of Aotearoa. Here they penetrate deep within the mountains to reach sacred waters that open the way for the healing of the women of the planet. They travel the ancient trails the Ancestors walked to enter the many realms of spirit. Their courage is challenged again and again by those who fear the birth of children who forsake the power of the blade of death.

They invoke the power of the waters and join the earth to the stars in remarkable ways that the old wisdom keepers understood. Sacred lore held secret for too long walks here. Hurts buried deep are revealed and mended by the power of new paradigms. And again and again they build more Tu Ahu to join Earth with the Stars.

The Circle opened this path to the way of the whales.

And whale song reaches across the waters to open other trails. Compassion stands tall despite the shadows that gather as the darkness reaches out to destroy. And the lore says, ‘We are of the whales and the whales are of us. All is one.’

The Song of the Whale

ISBN: 0-9583502-4-8

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