Mayan Dream Walk: Literate Shamanism in the Yucatan by Richard Luxton with Pablo Balam - 1981

UK: Rider, 1981. Paperback, 247 pages. Published by Rider, United Kingdom, 1981. Good condition - cover has light crease to lower right corne, no previous ownership marks, pages are clean and tight. The story of Mayan hieroglyphic writing remembered and interpreted by a contemporary Mayan Indian, don Pablo Balam. Balam’s words are the only explanation of Mayan sacred writing given to outsiders since the pre-Columbian culture was repressed by the Spanish invaders. The mysterious hieroglyphs can only be read shamanically. This book tells of an initiation into a shamanic way of life which has continued regardless of 400 years of European repression. It also tells the story of a neglected people living in the shadows of a ruined past. Scarce book.. Papeback. Good/None issued. 21.5cm.