Author: Prechtel, Martin

In Secrets of the Talking Jaguar the author told of his 14 years as a shaman in an ancient Mayan village. This stand-alone sequel examines the complexity of the Mayan religious and social universe in the midst of the Guatemalan civil war of the 1970s. Ultimately the thousand-year-old traditional rites of the Maya were outlawed and like many others, he was forced to flee the country.