The story is based on the Kurgan invasion of the Cucutemi peoples in the area south of what is now Kiev-and yet unlike Tarr’s earlier historicals, which adhere to known events, the fantasy this time flies more freely. The White Mare’s daughter is the beautiful priestess Sarama, who leads a nomadic warrior band on a quest for a metropolis masterminded by females at one point, she nearly exhausts herself in crossing a magically vast forest. Here, though, she takes a giant leap back into Neolithic times and a mythic Old Europe to focus on the majestic White Mare-the Great Goddess Epona incarnate-and on ancient equestrian practices among nomads, as well as on goddess worship. Tarr (Queen of Swords, 1997, etc.) usually grinds out two huge historicals a year based on medieval and ancient history.
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