Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: A Mayan Shaman's Journey to the Heart of the Indigenous Soul - Couverture rigide

Prechtel, Martin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0874779006 ISBN 13 : 9780874779004

Editeur : Tarcherperigree, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Prechtel Martin

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Twenty-five years ago, a young musician and painter named Martin Prechtel wandered through the brilliant landscapes of Mexico and Guatemala. Arriving at Santiago Atitlan, a Tzutujil Mayan village on the breathtaking shores of Lake Atitlan, Prechtel met Nicolas Chiviliu Tacaxoy--perhaps the most famous shaman in Tzutujil history--who believed Prechtel was the new student he had asked the gods to provide. For the next thirteen years, Prechtel studied the ancient Tzutujil culture and became a village chief and a famous shaman in his own right.In Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, Prechtel brings to vivid life the sights, sounds, scents, and colors of Santiago Atitlan: its magical personalities, its beauty, its material poverty and spiritual richness, its eight-hundred-year-old rituals juxtaposed with quintessential small-town gossip. The story of his education is a tale filled with enchantment, danger, passion, and hope.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Martín Prechtel is a spiritual activist and the author of The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise and The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic. Prechtel is a prominent thinker, writer and educator of Indigenous history, language and soulfulness. He teaches at his international school, Bolad’s Kitchen in his native New Mexico.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Tarcherperigree
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0874779006
• ISBN 13: 9780874779004
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 283