“Don’t you want to be loved?” I questioned.
But the Universe didn’t know what love meant.
For He was unfolding the stars of his beauty,
Hair adorned of Sun, flesh bathed in night.
“Love flows in the rivers of Jupiter,” he spoke,
“Eleven moons orbit my past. Will you defy them?
Will you have the strength to be my lover, my teacher,
The fire that warms the core of my soul?”
And I smiled, Almighty, for if you knew love,
[If you knew me], you would not question.
“The Marién Revelation carried me along in a rush so that I finished it in one day … While focusing on the interwoven stories of Mary the mother of Jesus and Marién, a very modern Mexican American woman, Santana depicts Jesus as the lover of the male "Beloved", whose portrait is indebted the Gospel of Mark. The novel is an intricately woven tapestry of ancient wisdom (heavily drawn from the Bible as well as Egyptian and Greek sources), of throbbing sexuality, and of spiritual desolation and exhilaration. The book is bursting with energy and inventiveness."
Theodore W. Jennings, author of "The Man Jesus Loved."
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