History Erased Leonardo da Vinci's Mother. Five Hundred Years Later, Someone Remembered Her

AUSTIN, TX, November 12, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- In the spring of 1999, in a quiet therapist's office in New York,a young woman lay back under deep hypnosis and began to remember what she says was another life. In that memory, she was Herminia Yegeruqway, a Circassian princess born in 1436 in the shadow of Mount Elbrus, marked by the blue spot of Genghis Khan and blessed by the Guardians. She remembered a little boy. She remembered teaching him to read the stars. His name was Leonardo.

That memory is now a book. Mirrors of Time: A Circassian Princess and Secrets of Mona Lisa, a spiritual mystery by MELRA, will be published by Melmar Books Inc. on December 2, 2026.

A BOOK WRITTEN THREE TIMES
The young woman was Melinda, the author known today as MELRA. She had gone to Dr. John Ryder for one reason: she was healthy, yet she could not conceive a child, and she wanted to know why. She was not looking for a princess. What came through, she says, was not imagined, researched or constructed. It arrived whole and vivid.

In 2024, she felt the world was finally ready for this story. Her first attempt to write it fell short, and the second was destroyed by accident. The third time, she closed her eyes and slipped into self-hypnosis. In two weeks, she says, the whole book was dictated. She describes its source not as archives or libraries but as the Universal Mind.

THE MOTHER HISTORY FORGOT
According to the book, Herminia's life runs through the fifteenth century: a childhood of sacred learning in the Caucasus Mountains; capture and sale in the silk markets of Venice; almost four years as the secret mother of a brilliant child; and then a cruel conspiracy that tore her from her son. She carries that bond across continents and decades, from Renaissance Italy to Ottoman Constantinople. Beneath every mystery, the book says, lies one truth: a mother's love is the force that bends time itself.

THE CODES LEONARDO LEFT BEHIND
The book offers its own answers to riddles that have intrigued historians and art lovers for five hundred years:
• Why did Leonardo write in mirror script?
• What is the mystery of the three Mona Lisas?
• What do the letters hidden in the Mona Lisa's eyes mean?
• Where did he go during his two-year disappearance?
• What is the spiritual meaning of his lost horse statue?

Under hypnosis, MELRA says, she recalled Herminia's deathbed prophecy that Leonardo's great horse, destroyed before it was ever cast, would "stand again in 500 years." One week after her sessions ended, on September 10, 1999, the bronze Cavallo di Leonardo was unveiled in Milan.

THE SEARCH FOR THE ONE GOD
Born into Circassian paganism, raised by an Orthodox Christian grandfather and later immersed in Sufi mysticism, Herminia becomes a living bridge between worlds on her search for the One God. At the end of a long life, she finds Christ. The book carries 352 wisdom quotes from the world's religious texts and spiritual traditions. It ranks no road above another, and it asks no one to believe.

"This book is more extraordinary than anything I could have written myself. Memory,
or something else entirely? That, like everything else here, is yours to decide."
— MELRA

Part historical mystery, part spiritual autobiography, Mirrors of Time is for readers of The Alchemist, Life of Pi, The Da Vinci Code and Many Lives, Many Masters. Watch the trailer at www.mirrors-of-time.com.

Mirrors of Time will be available in hardcover and softcover on Amazon. The exclusive limited leather edition is available for pre-order at www.mirrors-of-time.com/shop.

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