The Seven Serpents Trilogy (1979)
“The workmen brought from Tikan, Uxmal, and Zaya, numbering nearly two thousand, had already cleared a road leading from the plaza through a jungle of thorn bushes and creepers to the outskirts of the buried temple.
A stand of cypress trees had sprouted from its roof, with a nest of spiny agave clustered around their trunks. These had been cut away and burned. Columns that had fallen over the centuries and lay hidden under mounds of moldering leaves had been dug up and put aside to use again. A ...wide staircase, the main one of three that led into the temple, stood revealed, glistening white as the day theantiguoswho built it put down their ham mers.
To my great surprise, however, what was thought to be a temple turned out to be not a temple but a mam moth observatory. Because it was built with a rounded, shell-like dome, it reminded me of a snail. I therefore named it El Caracol , and thus Ceela put it down in the book of excavations she had begun for the year of our Lord 1519, in the reign of Kukulcán, God of the Eve ning Star.MoreLess
A stand of cypress trees had sprouted from its roof, with a nest of spiny agave clustered around their trunks. These had been cut away and burned. Columns that had fallen over the centuries and lay hidden under mounds of moldering leaves had been dug up and put aside to use again. A ...wide staircase, the main one of three that led into the temple, stood revealed, glistening white as the day theantiguoswho built it put down their ham mers.
To my great surprise, however, what was thought to be a temple turned out to be not a temple but a mam moth observatory. Because it was built with a rounded, shell-like dome, it reminded me of a snail. I therefore named it El Caracol , and thus Ceela put it down in the book of excavations she had begun for the year of our Lord 1519, in the reign of Kukulcán, God of the Eve ning Star.MoreLess
Read book The Seven Serpents Trilogy for free
Write Review:
User Reviews: