We are left in awe!

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2009)

Death is hanging – the inquisition over Isabel's' Spain, cancer over Izzi In the navel of Earth a Mayan temple houses the tree of life; above it a golden supernova named Xibalba. We are told how in Mayan legend the first Man created the tree of life by sacrificing himself - the tree burst from his stomach, his head became Xibalba and the roots became Earth. We are told by Izzi how on a trip to Mexico her guide Moses told her "that if they dug his father's body up it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew into the wood, into the bloom. And when a sparrow ate the tree's fruit, his father flew with the birds. He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!" Isabel/Izzi pulls Tomas/Tom through time. The tree is his map. The story is finished through acceptance – of the first man's sacrificial death and of the death of isabels' body that received infinite love A seed is planted in her body. Death-supernova explodes. It is finished. We have walked the road to awe. Body-root-earth and mind-cosmos-supernova somehow unite. We are left in awe!