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Father Carlo Crespi.  Father Carlo Crespi was real, as was his collection.  Google him.  It’s fascinating stuff.  What is left of his collection is stored in the Bank of Ecuador.  The collection was moved to the bank after a suspicious fire destroyed half of it at Father Carlo’s church.  The way in which Crespi collected his artifacts portrayed in this book is accurate:  he was gifted with each of his treasures by the indigenous people he served.

The Crespi Collection.  The descriptions of the Crespi collection from the bank vault are accurate descriptions of some of the artifacts from the vault (i.e., the metal sheets engraved with an unknown script, the statues, the depictions of dinosaurs and elephants, etc.) 

The descriptions of the cave are taken in part from unexplained archaeological finds across the globe and from this author’s imagination.  For example, the Vimanas described I are real.  In ancient Sanskrit text, there are descriptions of flying vehicles.  The city grid with the monorail?  That I made up, although there are some ancient cities that were laid out on a grid.

The Council and the Imiatores Belials.   They are both fictional groups I created.

Cave Doors.  The doors in the cave are real, in the sense that they are taken from the doors used Derinkuyu, an underground city in the Cappadocia region of Turkey.  Although the ones in Turkey were used solely to keep invaders out.

Enoch.  The stories of Enoch included in the novel, (i.e., that he was the great grandfather of Noah and that he became the scribe of God, Metatron) are true according to the Bible.  Whether he has returned to earth multiple times after his ascension, well, Cayce said he did.  And he was right about all those medical treatments . . .

Tunnels underneath South America.  There is an extended tunnel system underneath Ecuador, spilling into Peru and Chile.  The tunnels are allegedly the same ones that the Incans used to hide their gold from the Conquistadors.  And people have over time tried to explore the caves . . . much to their detriment.

Crustal Displacement Theory.  The idea of Antarctica actually being Atlantis is not a new idea.  Dr. Charles Hapgood, the author of crustal displacement theory, did argue that large swaths of land could rapidly move from one location on the globe to another due to the movement of a liquid core one hundred miles underneath the earth’s surface.  And while his theory was scoffed at by a number of prominent scientists, one notable scientist of the time did agree with him: Albert Einstein. 

Flood Myths.  There are hundreds of global flood myths across the globe.  The ones mentioned in the book (Noah, Manu, Gilgamesh) are also real and incredibly similar. 

Science, however, largely disputes that there had ever been a worldwide flood.  The closet science seems willing to go is ice dams.  Research on ice dams, created at the end of the ice age, are theorized to be capable of creating catastrophic flooding.  For more information, check Graham Hancock’s Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age.

The Tayos Cave and Neil Armstrong.  The Tayos Cave is a real location, as are the tunnels attached to it.  In 1976, Neil Armstrong was part of an expedition to Ecuador to find the metal library.   They found some artifacts in the Tayos Cave, but never found the cave with the metal library.  The leader of the expedition, Stan Hall, did plan later trips but for various reasons, they never materialized.

Nephilim.  The Bible does speak about the offspring of angels and humans.  These giants of men were allegedly incredibly powerful and usually immoral.  And they were alleged to be the reason behind the global flood: to rid the world of their menace.  But that never happened, right?
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Thanks for reading.  I hope you enjoyed the ride!

Until next time,

R.D.

Thanks to all those who helped make this book happen.  First and foremost, thank you Tae.  Thank you for all your support, time, and love.  Thank you for letting me take the time I needed to complete this book.  Thank you for always being in my corner and being unfailingly there when I needed you.  You are my rock.

Special thanks to all those critters who read and re-read The Belial Library in its multiple iteration.  In particular, thanks to Alan Chaput, Glenda, Ernie, Alex Sheridan, Mark Munroe, and Sarah Zama.

And most of all, thanks to Christine King-Raggio and Dana Griffin, my special critters and writing support squad.  You are priceless.

Thanks to Syracuse Martial Arts Academy and the larger martial arts community for their indispensible help not just with this book but with life lessons.  I am blessed to have found you.

Thanks to my editorial team. Thank you to Damon and Benjamin at Damonza.com for their cover design and formatting work.  You guys are incredible.  And thanks to my copy editor Evelyn Duffy. 

And finally, thanks to my little gang of three for their support, love, and hugs.

R.D. Brady has a Ph.D. in criminology and lives in upstate New York.  When she's not writing, she can be found studying Jeet Kune Do, reading, or trying to find more hours in the day.

The Belial Library
is the second book in
The Belial Series
.  (Book 1 is
The Belial Stone
.)  R.D. is currently working on the third book in the series, The Belial Ring.

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