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Martin Prechtel

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New Mexico, The United States

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http://floweringmountain.com

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A master of eloquence and innovative language, Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. As a half blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, his life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. There becoming a full village member of the Tzutujil Mayan population, he eventually served as a principal in that body of village leaders responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the rituals of adult rights of passage. Once again residing in his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s Kit...more

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Books by Martin Prechtel

Average rating: 4.43 · 374 ratings · 73 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Secrets of the Talking Jaguar 4.32 avg rating — 216 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Long Life, Honey in the Heart 4.55 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form 4.60 avg rating — 42 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Toe Bone And The Tooth 4.64 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Stealing Benefacio's Roses: A Mayan Epic 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlan by Nathaniel Tarn, Martin Prechtel 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture by Derrick Jensen (Editor), Stanley Aronowitz, Luis J. Rodriguez 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town by Robert S. Carlsen, Martin Prechtel (Contribution by), David Carrasco (Foreword by) 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision was gathering in my eyes, not entirely clear just yet. This was the same look people saw in your eyes when you have died for beauty and come to live accepting nature as life with no promise of paradise, and mad at people who couldn't see that.”
― Martin Prechtel, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar

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