Review: Amazing read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2014
We return to Veragua in Central America 500 years ago. John Cabot, world famous English explorer, steers his ship to shore where he is warmly greeted by the natives. With his white hair and his similarity in looks to his first mate, the islanders get the wrong idea that Cabot and his first mate are actually the reincarnation of Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the Mayan Hero Twins. The islanders believe that the heroes have returned to defeat the Lords of Xibalba. The tribal chief gives directions to a nearby island called Boyuca (and by some Ananeo) which is supposed to contain the entrance to the Underworld. The tribal chief assures Cabot that the island contains magical healing water which can heal ills. As he is leaving the island, Cabot remarks to his friend the monk that the crude map given to him by the islanders also shows a new ocean (the Pacific Ocean) across the modern-day Isthmus of Panama.