Post 5
- Telling the ‘Evil Spirits’ Story
This is Post 5. To start at the heginning, go to Post 1.
What could I do with my new theory? I could not present it in a research paper because I did not have the credentials necessary for it to be taken seriously. I could write a novel, though. I did not need a doctorate in archeology to write a work of fiction, all I needed was a good story.
What could I do with my new theory? I could not present it in a research paper because I did not have the credentials necessary for it to be taken seriously. I could write a novel, though. I did not need a doctorate in archeology to write a work of fiction, all I needed was a good story.
This story is in the book, Mayan
Mystery Unveiled, available from Amazon. The characters in the story experience
adventures among ruins hidden away in a rainforest, the same adventures I had
enjoyed, exciting and full of surprises.
The main character of the story is Kelli, an American nurse. She volunteers to work at a medical clinic
giving free care in a Mayan village in Belize.
She goes a week early for a vacation, to enjoy the natural beauty of
this tropical country before her work begins.
Kelli asks a Mayan guide to show her around, and he introduces her to
two other Americans who had already hired him.
They are retired teachers searching for the answer to the Mayan
Mystery. Kelli agrees to join them in
their search, and the guide takes them to Mayan historic sites. The teachers are elderly, cannot walk well
enough to go to all the sites, so Kelli goes to some sites with the guide as
the others rest. Early in the story, the
guide takes her to a deep crater with a mystical blue pool of water and a Mayan
legend. The following photo shows that
blue pool of water, but that’s not Kelli entering it, she’s fictitious, you
know. That’s Virginia.
As I said earlier, the characters are fictional but every place
described is a place Virginia and I have been, and the scenes are mostly
activities we experienced.
Kelli invites the guide to join her in the pool for a swim, and he
does. He then tells her the ancient
legend that any couple who swim in the pool together will enjoy a happy life
together. She tells him to expect a
short life, because she returns home in a few days.
The guide takes Kelli to climb pyramids and explore the ruins of
ancient cities, such you see in the following photo. Here we pass between an unexcavated palace mound
on the left and an unexcavated pyramid on the right to reach the excavated
pyramid in the distance. This taller
pyramid was the main temple of the ancient city.
The guide also carries Kelli into a cavern where ancient priests conducted their sacred rituals, she slips and knocks the flashlight from his hand. It breaks when it hits the floor, leaving them in total darkness. He leads her out by the trickling sound of the stream that for more than a thousnd years had been carving the cavern through the mountain. He also takes her to remote Mayan villages of thatched homes, and she learns Mayan ways that had been passed down for generations.
Go to Post 6 to pull the facts together for the theory.
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