Post 5 - Telling the ‘Evil Spirits’ Story

This is Post 5 of the blog.  To start at the beginning, 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.

I did write the story and you can find it 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 they frequently take a day off to rest.  When they do, Kelli goes with the guide to the sites that require climbing.  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 events 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 had carved 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.

To pull the facts together for the theory, scroll down or go to Post 6.