No Pictures in My Grave: A Spiritual Journey in Sicily

by Susan Caperna Lloyd

Book Overview

A hauntingly beautiful story. Susan Lloyd's search for the remaining vestiges of the Dark Goddess in modern Sicily held me spellbound.--Demetra George, author of Mysteries of a Dark Moon.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562790234
• ISBN13: 9781562790233
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Mercury House
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Another View of Sicilia

This gal is really down to earth. She's also more like the typical voyager; gets lost, makes poor decisions, finds all the hotel rooms booked.Despite her bad luck or bad planning, she manages to get somereally good perspectives of Sicilia and meets some really nicepeople. This is yet another wonderful book, that as you turnthe pages you are getting secret little glimpses of this strangeand elusive country. She discovers it's relatively easy to meet and speak to Sicilianmen, but much harder to connect to the women, who in fact, livedifferently from other Italian women.A lot of her misconnections really did remind me of my own travels, (what would have happened if she stayed one more dayin this town, or even just a few minutes more in that churchwhere the caretaker was going to show her that older statue?)I was ready to book my own flight and follow her footsteps forthe answer!There are just a few books on the market right now that deal withthe Black Madonnas found in Italy. In the last 100 yearsmost of them have disappeared or have been painted whiteand the replacements are always virginal pure Marys. Thereare some interesting remnants of a very different religionin Sicilia, and Susanna managed to uncover just a little bitof it for us.This author discusses her attempts to find evidence of a previous and yet extant culture in a nice clearvoice rich with color and interesting personal adventures.