It was the end of March and beginning of April 1999 that Chuck Gillen and me went on an unplanned impromptu trip to the Lacandon rain forest. That is the area of southern Mexico (Chiapas), which hosts the ruins of Palenque, Bonampak and Yaschilan. We did it with the support service local guides from Palenque which was our base camp. We had the opportunity to sail on the Usumacinta River that serves as the border between Mexico and Guatemala on our way to Yaschilan.
Chuck wearing red shirt at the court in the ruinas of Palenque.
I’m lost
in the Lacandon jungle. I felt scared.
The
mooring bank of the Usumacinta River at Yaschilan.
We are being escorted by
the Mexican federal cops avoiding banditos.
Enters the Renaissance novelist, painter and
sculptor, Brian D’Amato who published in 2009 his great fictional historical thriller
novel, “In The Courts of The Sun”,
that takes place at the Maya era of 664 AD.
And it all happens in the locales that we actually visited
nine years earlier. What a serendipitous
encounter with a modern multy-talented artist that is Brian D’Amato.
The novel “In The Courts of The Sun” was published by Dutton,The Penguin Group publishers. NY 2009.
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