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JUAN FRANCISCO BLANCO
“It’s a long, old story. The Maya had their first contact with
Christopher Columbus’ fourth journey to the New World in 1504.
Later, following the Spanish conquest of the fierce Aztec Empire
in 1521, the Maya were brutalized in a series of invasions that
started with Hernán Cortés’ Honduran expedition in 1525. The
Spanish continued their conquest of all of lower Mexico and
Central America until the last vestiges of the Mayan city-state
kingdoms were finally overcome in 1697. The Lacandon group of
Maya, who live in the forests of Chiapas, Mexico, still live in the
old traditional ways of the Maya. Their lives are an example that
the Sacred Calendar is a codification of the Mayan Universe of
Holy Time.”
“Wow, you really are Mister Maya! You know an awful lot
about the Maya and their Sacred Calendar.”
“The main thing I have learned is what is important to today’s
world. The world we will eventually return to is not the
astronomical aspects of the Mayan Calendar, but the spiritual.”
“Look, over there. Mahucutah is coming. Now we can get
some sleep,” Bardala said with a yawn.
Zipakná plodded steadily along the western shoreline of Kaóc.
His red stone eyes were always searching for his Staff of Power.
He would never stop looking for it. He needed it. It was his.
These thoughts kept going over and over in his cosmic brain. He
suddenly turned, and tried a different and unused path. Maybe
this old trail would lead him to his precious Staff of Power. He
plodded on, tearing through the jungle, reopening the long
unused path.