A runaway slave in an abandoned temple performs a forgotten rite of call. The Teacher, the Firstborn, a dark and indomitable spirit, will lead his “monkey” into a distant and bloody path. Personal scout Spartacus, the beloved of Julius Caesar, the priestess-killer of the mysterious Underworld Father, the conversant of angels, a regular of the "afterlife Dachau", she will live to see the day of the great battle - when over Bethlehem will light up the star of a new era. The new novel by Andrei Valentinov, a recognized master of cryptohistory, continues in a bright artistic form the theme begun by the writer in the novel Spartacus.