Secrets Of The Talking Jaguar

Secrets Of The Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel


ISBN
9780007142668
Published
Released
01 / 03 / 2003
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Dimensions
153 x 234mm

Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village.

Martin Prechtel's astonishing and highly acclaimed first book is a powerful and vivid account of his life with the Mayan community in Guatemala.

Martin Prechtel, who grew up on a pueblo Indian reservation in New Mexico, wandered as a young man through the brilliant landscapes of Mexico and Guatemala. Drawn in his dreams to the traditional Mayan community of Santiago Atitlan, he carved out a life for himself among the villagers.

Though an outsider himself, Prechtel was adopted as an apprentice by a powerful, ancient shaman named Nicolas Chiviliu Tacaxoy. He married a Mayan woman and became a village chief and famous shaman in his own right, entrusted with the rich legacy of Atitlan's ancient Mayan heritage and its deepest cultural traditions.

In this book, Prechtel brings to vivid life the sights, sounds, scents, and colour of the village: its magical personalities; its beauty, its material poverty and spiritual wealth; its eight hundred year old rituals juxtaposed with quintessential small-town gossip and passions.

In a tale filled with enchantment, danger, rich cultural descriptions, shamanic rivalry and hope, Prechtel takes us into the heart of both untamed nature and intimate community life. His spellbinding narrative compellingly explores the complexity and joy of contemporary Mayan village life - a culture that is fast disappearing in the wake of modernisation.

Full of compassion, humour and wisdom, his unforgettable account reads like the most gripping adventure novel. Yet every word is true.
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