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I
traveled throughout the region to the sites of the ancient Maya studying what
we know of their culture. In between
trips I continued my research and wrote the stories that came to me from
the place; stories, of magic, enchantment, beauty, love, transformation,
and dedication; of a brilliant, highly evolved culture that understood the
laws of the universe in a creative and unique way.
Drawing
on actual events and beliefs of the Mayan culture, I’ve crafted a novel
that is both a spiritual and a physical journey where love and betrayal,
religion and transcendence are married together in the experience of the
hero twins, Balamka and Hanahpu who discover that it is not just their own
growth that is at stake; the gods are dependent on them for their own
re-union, and their culture must have the new vision that they bring if
their world is to survive and regain it‘s balance. A message I believe is sorely needed in our own time, and for the
Maya, time was everything.
Time and Transformation is both a factually based historical novel,
that travels through the mythology and spiritual beliefs of the Classic
Maya, and an imaginative journey of spiritual discovery through a
fascinating world of sorcery, magical practices, and human sacrifice; of
mystics, and elaborate cyclical understandings of time, astronomy and
mathematical genius, where both the light and the dark work in equal
measure against one another. Through the efforts of the twins, Balamka and
Hanahpu, the new vision emerges; one that arises through their individual
journeys into the hearts and minds of the Goddess, Ixchel and the God,
Itzamna, through whom they learn the true nature of the interplay between
physical and spiritual reality.
There
isn’t much time and for the Maya, time is everything. According to Classic
Mayan mythology, after the divine male twins, Ixbalamka and Hanahpu,
redeemed mankind from the limitations of the third age and brought them
into the fourth, The Toltec God, Quetzequotl, prophesied:
The destruction of this age and movement into the fifth, will come about
through the efforts of another pair of twins; a male and a female. It will
signal the end of my dominion. You are therefore required to sacrifice all
male/female twins at birth.
Pursued by the Toltec prophesy that seeks their
death, a pair of male/female twins, Balamka and Hanahpu -- mysteriously abandoned
at birth -- must develop their preternatural powers in hiding before
they’re ready to stand and lead their people against the emerging tide of
violence and human sacrifice the Toltec have re-instituted. Set on the
Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico at the height of the Mayan empire, 700 AD,
Balamka and Hanahpu bring a vision of far greater importance than they
could ever have imagined; the unique nature of that understanding is that
not only do their people need this new vision to survive, but the gods depend
on them for their own re-union. Thus their dual task is to move their
culture to a new age of understanding -- and by so doing -- unite the gods.
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