Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the political horrors of civil war with lyric retellings of sacred Mayan myths. The story shifts expertly from timeless, with archetypal characters like Raggedy Boy and the goddess known as the Water-Skirted Beauty, to timely in the book's striking first-person narrative set in the 1980s. Prechtel shows how ancient myths can become a part of life for everyone and help nurture spiritual survival in the modern world. Though it comes third in sequence with the author's other two books, Stealing Benefacio's Roses also stands on its own as a classic work of spiritual seeking and adventure.
Following the acclaimed Secrets of "The Talking Jaguar" and "Long Life, Honey in the Heart," this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling.
This book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary academic analysis of the impact of Lamar’s corpus.
Moonlight Leaning Against an Old Rail Fence points beyond our literal fixations with language, ideas, and doctrines to the great ungraspable poetic reality that is expressed in all our spirituality and in all our human experience.
... Stealing Benefacio's Roses ; The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic ; and The Smell of Rain on Dust : Grief and Praise . The painting featured on this book's cover is “ Gordon Hellegers Playing Song of the Horse on His Kora During the ...
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... Stealing Benefacio's Roses (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2013), 120. Chapter. 9: Embrace. Grief. and. Despair. 5. Melissa Denchak, “Water Pollution: Everything You Need to Know,”. 1. Somé, Of Water and the Spirit, 10–12, 55. 2 ...
At base, this "little book," as the author calls it, can be seen as a companion of encouragement, a little extra light for those deep and noble parts in all of us.
... Stealing Benefacio's Roses. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2002. Prechtel, Martin. The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2001 ...
Prechtel expands this archetypal story with five layers of commentary, each teasing out a different wisdom and revealing its relevance to the world today.
... Stealing Benefacio's Roses and Secrets of the Talking Jaguar The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic Also by MARTÍN PRECHTEL Secrets. Front Cover.