BOOK REVIEW
‘Sacred Ground’, by Barbara Wood
A Review
‘It was a place that would one day be called California…’, so announces the title cover page of the book.
The fictional work begins with hot shot archaeologist Dr Erica Tyler rushing to the scene of a massive earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale, in California. The temblor happens beside and beneath the mansions and playgrounds of the rich and the famous and the bold and the beautiful people of the place, which, of course creates problems.
Even more startling is the fact that when one of the swimming pools disappeared into the ground, the avalanche of mud that it set off, also threw up human bones and a deep, mysterious cave. When Erica was finally allowed access to the cave, she was stunned by what she saw in it, around it, and beneath it.
The scene then shifts to 2000 years before the present day and age.
Using meticulous research, myth and stories, the author recreates an age and time when humanity had stopped leading a nomadic life and had just begun to put down roots. The tribe was the centre of life, and the centre of the tribe, was a woman, the clan shaman woman.
The story is intricate and detailed. But what I found intriguing was that the basis of life itself, at the time, and centuries…
