Vata son

The One Who Lost Everything to Win Kingdom of Hungary, 1061 By the middle of the 11th century, the new faith, Christianity, had spread throughout the young Hungarian kingdom. Only a single tribe from Trans-Tisza preserves the old order. From there, the last pagan rebellion erupted in 1061. A feigned peace reigns in the "kingdom" of King Béla I. Béla only has to crush one more pagan tribe to finally fully make the young Hungarian kingdom part of Christian Europe. But Béla, the cruel realist, has to fight his greatest battle with his own past: the more zealously he builds his great work, the more desperately he secretly seeks a way back to the pagan world of his childhood. János, the son of Vata, the last pagan - in old Hungarian: szár - chief of the tribe, is a man as divided as Béla. He sees his world slowly falling apart and his people are destined for fateful destruction. He seems to firmly rule his tribe, but deep down he has long since stopped believing in his god. For some time now, he has only been able to fall asleep if he puts a naked dagger next to his couch: if someone wants to sacrifice him according to tribal custom, he can easily do so. Adelardó is a young Hispanic monk, legal scholar and Hungarian interpreter. Since becoming a monk, he has been searching for God's truth in the world, but the only thing he can believe in is his own memory: he believes that it keeps alive those who are doomed to destruction in the world. The Son of Vata is an exciting chain of dramatic events written based on a small number of historical sources and elements of the Árpád family's myths: a chronicle of the outbreak and subsequent suppression of the last pagan rebellion and the final disappearance of the ancient steppe culture of the Hungarians. It's as if a film is playing before us: it's about old Hungarians, but for today's Hungarians: during the 11th-century story, the current dilemmas and questions of fate of the Hungarian people, who came from far away and have been searching for their place in Europe ever since, are revealed.