THE WIZARD OF ZACNA

In the days when Kukukan, hero god of the Mayas, commanded men to build to him mighty and glorious temples, he inspired them also with mighty passions--undying loves. Great cities they builded. They lived and loved and fiercely and fearfully served their gods. Now they dwell in eternal bliss in the ninth heaven, and Ahmen, descendent of warriors, sits on a stone of sacrifice near a ruined temple, and sees in his zaztum the long-awaited coming of his enemy, and the finish of a fight.

This is a story of today, and partly a story of another day when Ahmen was young and loved and beloved. It is a seductive and intriguing story, for it takes one into a city of an ancient civilization where high loves and hot hates, religious fervor and priestly intrigue ruled.

We see human nature sunk to deepest depths of infamy, and also revealed as it rises to divine heights. In Zacna as here, as ever was and ever will be, there is falsity and there is truth; and then as now, tradegy stalks joy. Ixkan, cunning, ambitious, enthralls men with her sensuous beauty, enmeshes the nation in her toils, bringing hate, revenge, lust, murder, war, infinite sorrow and final doom.

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336 pages
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