Literary Works

There are several imaginary literary works that appear in the Krandallverse and play a role in differentiating this fictitious world from ours.

Some of the works listed on this page are available for purchase or loan at Madame Eugenia's Sacred Books and Candles in Las Vegas.

#### The Dark Zodiac of Xibalba

*Zociaco Oscuro de Xibalba* (1971) by Rodolpo Miguel Orozco, Professor of Pre-Columbian Languages and Cultures at UNAM, Mexico City.

In 1959, an American named Charles Alexander wandered out of the jungle and into a remote village in Guatemala. The man had been lost in the jungle for several days. He was disheveled, dehydrated, and raving with fever. A local missionary hospital took him in. The patient would occasionally come out of his delirium and speak a few disjointed phrases in Spanish or English, then go back into his fever-trance where he spoke a language that resembled an ancient Pre-Mayan dialect.

Professor Orozco, an expert on ancient Mesoamerican languages, happened to be doing anthropological research in the area, and he was called to the village to consult. Orozco was fascinated by what he was hearing. He brought his recording equipment into the hospital and met with the patient for several days, recording over 40 hours of the man's ravings.

While Orozco was on a trip into town to acquire more recording tapes, the patient recovered from his fever and left the village. The hospital staff told Orozco that an exorcism was performed and the patient fully recovered overnight, with no memory of the last twenty days. Distressed about the time he had lost, Mr. Alexander insisted that he be allowed to leave immediately to rejoin his fiancé. As he seemed perfectly well and lucid, they could not justify holding him against his will. After an unsuccessful search for Alexander, Orozco eventually returned to UNAM and set to translating and transcribing the recordings with help from some graduate students and other experts in ancient languages.

Over several painstaking years, Orozco and his helpers produced a Spanish translation of the recordings. Orozco entitled the translated work "The Dark Zodiac of Xibalba," as it was a tale of twelve celestial entities fighting over dominion of the Earth, sky, and underworld. In 1971, ten bound copies were printed and several were gifted to the students who aided in translating and transcribing it.

   Rumor has it, that in his later years, Orozco was working independently to produce an English translation with a Forward and Introduction relating the strange tale of the manuscript’s origins, and sought to have it published in America. Orozco died in a fire in his home in 1979 and the original tapes, his notes, and all copies of the new manuscript were destroyed in the fire. No publishers in America or elsewhere admitted to having received copies or chapters of the book, despite claims by his friends and family that Orozco had sent it to several of them.

The only two known existing copies of The Dark Zodiac of Xibalba are held securely in the UNAM library in Mexico City – one hand-written in Proto-Mayan and one bound and printed in Spanish.  UNAM makes no claim as to their legitimacy.

#### David of Babylon

Revelations of Dif-id ad-Bav-il (David of Babylon) (1925-1939, unpublished) by Izabella Sobakova-Dodd (a.k.a. Isabella Krandall)

The core of this work consists of 188 handwritten and hand-illustrated pages produced by Izabella Sobakova-Dodd (a.k.a. Isabella Krandall) through trance-channeled automatic writing between the years of 1925-1929. Although the entity calling itself *Dif-id ad-Bav-il* never made contact with her again after 1929, Izabella Sobakova-Dodd continued to expand upon the enigmatic 188-page work until her death in 1939, producing a voluminous body of related research, essays, and commentaries.

The complete work, including both the 188 inspired pages and the author's detailed commentaries, was never published, and the original manuscript has been lost to time. A few transcribed copies, in part or in full, are rumored to be held as curiosities in the private libraries of collectors.

All through the 1920's and 1930's, Sobakova-Dodd was a popular medium and spiritualist for the hedonistic and wealthy elites of Los Angeles and Hollywood, usually working under her professional name, Isabella Krandall.

Excerpts from Sobakova-Dodd's work have appeared in other esoteric works, including *Praeter Velum: Metaphysica Magicae pro Tironibus* by Fyodor.

#### The Founders of New Atlantis

The Founders of New Atlantis: The Luciferian Illuminati's Influence on Modern Western Culture, Volumes 1-3 (1977, 1979, 1983), by Damon Vitieri.

This controversial three-volume work draws connections between obscure personages of the late 1800's to a secret society that allegedly has shaped and orchestrated world history for the last hundred years, through WWI, WWII, and up to the writer's present day.

Volumes 1 & 2 saw a very limited printing and were not well received. It is likely that the only full and unabridged editions of these works still in existence are held in private collections or libraries. Damon Vitieri passed away in 1980 at the age of 75. Volume 3 was published posthumously and is supposedly a collection of the late author's research notes and private journal entries, compiled, edited, and prefaced by one of Vitieri's collaborators, Professor Archibald Drake of Oxford University. Published editions of Volume 3 include Drake's very brief and narrow summation of Volumes 1 & 2.

Because of the contradictions and apparent inconsistencies of tone and intent between the first two volumes and the third volume, some believe that Volume 3 was not Vitieri's work at all, but an obfuscation campaign attributed to Professor Drake of Oxford to protect the members and interests of the very organization Vitieri endeavored to expose in Volumes 1 & 2 of his work.

#### Praeter Velum

*Praeter Velum: Metaphysica Magicae pro Tironibus*