God is a Woman in a Rice Field - Chapter 10

Another Time & Place ©dianegreen

Summertime (section) - Acrylic on Canvas - by © diane green 2005

Unconsciousness:

Not something you can really wrap your head around. But the mind can really wander when there’s nowhere to park. During the time Abby was unconscious, an unfamiliar mystical door to a mysterious past suddenly opened for her. She seemed to remember it as a dream or more like … a déjà vu…she found herself drifting through another time and place.

The Year 39 Common Era:

Herodias, along with her 2nd husband Herod Antipas, and her daughter Salome are exiled by the Roman emperor Caligula to the Greco-Roman area of Gaul in a land later known as Lyon, France. Herodias’ nephew, Agrippa sent a letter to Caligula noting his brother had an army, a legion of 70,000 men with an intention to attack Rome. Caligula had seen enough of these character assassinations on his happy and gay time in power. So away they went. Of all the (way to) damn Gaul….