The San Francisco call., 1896-08-30

vast Businesses of the Funeral Mountains may
IN the forgotten lore of extinct people only know tha
cached in crevice found several
scripts traced upon substance resembling papyrus and
from this discovery fair infer that Others wonder
Iy preserved through the lapse OF centuries may also exist
Long study has been required only partially decpher one OF
these manuscripts appears to be portion of the official
record of ancient priesthood whose car and religion alike
have sunken oblivion From this scroll only small frag
ment OF the succeeding been derived Imagination
necessarily supplying the remainder The events occurred long
before the probability Without further
preface and without boring the reader with unnecessary details
concerning finding decpherng of the basis of this ae
let Is begin
Wandering hand hand, centuries long agone, man
and maiden of the of the great
MAYA family Of nations found themselves at the close OF
golden afternoon the early autumn in small valley amid
what known Mountains OF
water, tnkng muscay down the mountain SIDE gave
nourshment large forest trees The wanderers
suddenly this they emerged from forbid
ding through which they had passed. and
seemed them they had been led to this spot They
worshps and before the monarch of day had disap
peered they raised their voices in form OF unetu adorao
which they learned very distant land. They knelt
upon grass velvet crushed strange flowers which
sent forth their floral death exqusey sweet and subtle
odors valley rich ruitage aordng abundance
of food In the wild birds croled gayy Here might
they rest, they thought
Long had they wandered leaving the graves of their
and the home of their childhood behind them The
foot of man seemed never Bounu
gratutousy the home, and they gladly
it. They found and installed themselves
therein They had no needs which could beyond
pleasing Back in the region from
which they had journeyed only wasted lands ana
slaughtered relatives who had been killed in cruel wars of
contained only strangers whose intentions were unknown
like Eden theirs and there they might rest
Only dangerous thirst for knowledge might
lead them sacrifice this newly found bliss for here they might
dwell long the Sun God should give them life.
All that thirst for knowledge! He whom we may call
Aymoyo (or the scroll) valiant and
Despite the entreaes of the girl whom will
call Oonemalche whose forebodngs he only smiled, he
night he failed return and many days
nights weeping dreadful dreams tortured her, while
hope breast Then she started follow him.
knowing whittier the great wilderness of mountains
steps, trusting the Sun God to guide her. Ser
pens gded by unheeded by night and by day. Fierce
wild animals gard hungy at her and crouched spring.
eyes glowing like fire in their sockets but Sun God
back She cmbed high hills and scaled almost in
peaks but the Sun God led
she wandered carrying with her the hope that her
might not fail from the face of the earth.
morning she human footprint. Her heart
bounded, she knew that it his Weary she had
suddenly felt the buoyancy youth
now drew the edge precpice she has teri
The began hide his face
would not back than ar asd
who forth by day. had been led by the
would she be led. the black
beasts of thinking that
night and howled around her. She could not
her SOUL and the Sun told
doomed and that she and her perish
Chilled she sank to the ground but uttered