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Secrets of the Talking Jaguar Paperback - 1999

by Prechtel, Martin

This powerful memoir of an American who was adopted by a shaman and allowed to study the secrets of a Tzutujil Mayan village in deepest Guatemala "offers readers a privileged and rare glimpse into (the village's) complex and spiritually rich life" ("Rocky Mountain News"). 15,000.


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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.

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  • Title Secrets of the Talking Jaguar
  • Author Prechtel, Martin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 283
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Tarcher, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999-08-30
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780874779707
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: New Age
    • Topical: New Age

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 22

About the author

Martn 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.
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