The Woman Who Loved God, or A Tale of Two Sons

'The Woman Who Loved God, or A Tale of Two Sons' is a chapter from "A True Jasmine", a Grail romance by Maria Rustica, taking place around the year 2000. This chapter is a little story inside the story, told by the incurable storyteller Vasily Severyanin, possibly in response to the question: "What is a knight?"
The book is not yet available in full in an English translation. As a preview, I publish selected chapters on my channel in an audio-visual form.

© The text is copyright of the author 2024. All rights reserved.

The music snippets at the beginning and end are from Alfred Schnittke: "Declaration of love", composed for the Aleksandr Mitta film "A Tale of Wanderings" ("Сказка Странствий", USSR 1982). The music is copyright of the owner and is here quoted solely for entertainment and educational purposes, and to recommend the film to people. Watch it, it is outstanding.

The images are from Wikimedia Commons.
00:00 Joy Agyepong: Nzulezo 2 - Ghana.
4:23 and 34:41: Henri A. Ferguson: Joy Bridge (Boston Public Library).
4:30 Anika Meyer: Mother and young child with a disability
4:34 Daderot: Mother and child - Statues in Okayama City, Japan.
4:38 Paul Peel: Mother and child.
4:47 and 29:07 Neapolitan Mother and Child. (Possibly by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake.)
4:54 Charles W. Bartlett: Mother and Child, Kashmir.
5:00 and 28:21 Henry Essenhigh Corke: Mother and Child.
5:11 Peter Vilhelm Ilsted: A Mother and Child in an interior.
6:20 and 29:40 Ken Lund: Devils Garden Trail Between Landscape Arch anf Double O Arch,
Arches National Park, Moab, Utah.
6:36 Albert Bierstadt: On the Sweetwater near the Devil's Gate.
8:29 Vyacheslav Argenberg: Wadi Rum Desert, Jordan, The "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
9:39 og 14:25: William Bell: Devil's Anvil, Sheawitz Crossing near foot of Toroweap Valley,
River 3000 feet below, Colorado River.
13:24 Kathryn Woodman Leighton: Desert Verbena.
17:09 Vyacheslav Argenberg: Sinai, Egypt, Canyon through the moutnains, majestic desert
landscape.
22:48 Gerard van Honthorst: The mocking of Christ.
27:39 and 30:51 Ivan Kramskoi: Христос в пустыне.
33:50 Photochrom Print Collection: At Devil's Bridge, Aberystwith, Wales.