The images you'll see as you scroll down to the current text are all part of the story telling in my novel, Realms of Gold:Ritual to Romance.


Bianca Caldwell, pen name, Bianca Fiore, is a writer for an art magazine. In each of her monthly stories she describes an object used in ancient ritual.

Estrucan Gold Achelous Head Pendentive

In Greek mythology, Achelous was the patron deity of the "silver-swirling" Achelous River, which is the largest river of Greece, and thus the chief of all river deities, every river having its own river spirit.  Homer's reference was interpreted as making Achelous "prince of rivers".

Achelous head. Pendentive of an Etruscan gold necklace, ca. 480 BC.