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Unsung Lord of Siyah Chan

A Novel of the Ancient Maya

by Joan C Wrenn

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Ten Years of Silence
Yoaat Balam’s time has come. It’s his turn to step into the role of Ahaw, Lord of his city-state of Siyah Chan, a role he has been training for all his life. He must now put aside his work on star charts and inscriptions to lead his city and provide for its welfare. Yet his name was never recorded for posterity in the inscriptions of any ancient Maya city.
Mayan scholars call it the “Inter-regnum” - a ten-year period with very few inscriptions of dated events after the death of the aged Lord Itzamna Balam in 742 AD, and there is no mention of a new Lord. What happened during Yoaat’s reign?
Assisted by his mother, the great and holy Na K’abal Xook, his three older sisters, and his two half-brothers, Yoaat struggles to organize his people to face a series of elemental challenges: flood and drought, hunger and sickness. Then news from the north brings new threats as their allied city Waka’ is overtaken, and Yoaat sends his half-brother Yaxuun with warriors to the aid of endangered northern towns under Siyah Chan’s protection. At home Yoaat institutes new rituals to appease the gods and comfort the people. Through it all an insidious treachery looms, bringing a horrific event that can never be told, lest Siyah Chan go down in infamy.

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Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 499 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Dec 07, 2011)
ISBN10: 1432781340
ISBN13: 9781432781347
Genre: FICTION / Historical / General

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Joan C WrennJoan C Wrenn holds BA and MA degrees in Cultural Anthropology from the California State University, Hayward, with an emphasis on the Anthropology of Religion. She has done extensive research on the ancient Maya, including voluminous reading and seven trips to Chiapas and Yucatan Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and El Salvador to tour ancient ruins, including two visits to the site of the novel. She adds real-life content to her stories from glimpses into the lives of contemporary Maya and their handcrafts and religious practices. She also has participated in numerous glyph-reading workshops.
Joan lives in northern California with her husband and seven cats, and is now working on the third novel in the Siyah Chan series. Her previously published books are Call of the Panther and Young Lords of Siyah Chan.
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