The Prophet Chronicles
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Musings on Josiah
In preparation for the release of Daughter of Stone this summer, I’ll be doing a series of blog posts about some of the characters and events that inspired the story. The Prophet Chronicles is a fantastical retelling of the events before and during the Babylonian Exile. In studying the books of 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, and Jeremiah, I had so many questions. There are so many things we just don’t know the specifics of. At the same time, there are so many things in their culture that have parallels in our own. We can look into the lives of the people of the Old Testament and…
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What’s a Quipu?
Any guesses? Some sort of textile equivalent of a grass skirt? An ancient example of a fidget toy? It’s actually pretty practical. Quipu: an ancient Incan data recording device consisting of variously colored ropes knotted in different patterns But what if . . . the data it stored was a secret message? I looked at this picture and saw a perfect tool for spies. I’m editing the first book in The Prophet Chronicles, and this device will be on the pages. This quipu (KEE-POO) doesn’t just keep a record of crop yields or tax payments. Hurgalan spies carry top-secret information embedded in the quipu’s knots from Ariel, the capital of…
