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Baktun 2012

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BAKTUN 2012 tells the story of one woman's spiritual adventure in the Mayan pyramids. As the year 2012 approaches, a San Francisco woman named Karen Rune still grieves for her deceased female lover, and remembers how happily they had lived together in Mexico several years before. Karen finds herself dreaming strange dreams and feels drawn to return to Mexico to seek guidance from a Mayan astronomer and teacher named Yvonne Quextal. When she arrives in Mexico, Karen learns that the coming of the new Mayan age, or baktun, coincides with the coming of the Raven comet that the Mayans call "crow," because it announces a new creation. The surprise of BAKTUN 2012 is how this creation comes into being... there is an unexpected twist at the end of this book!

Karen's dreams call to her, compelling her to locate her beloved but controversial Mayan female astronomy teacher in Mexico. Karen's internal journey of supressed painful memories is matched by her external adventure as she travels to Chichen Itza and beyond to witness Raven, the comet of mythic importance as the harbinger of change. Beautifully descriptive writing leads us through the textures and sights of Mexico as we enter the doorway of the Mayan prophesy of Baktun 2012. A very well written, intelligent and wholly engaging book.

I liked the book, I read these kinds of books just to inform myself about the myths going on about the Mayan culture, visit www.baktun.org to post your thoughts about the myths of the Mayan culture.

A lesbian grieving her dead lover returns to Mexico and becomes embroiled in the Mayan "Baktun" myth of 2011. This story has some complicated concepts including comets and Mayan cosmology, but overall is well written and extremely informative.
If you've ever been to a Mayan city, Conrad's writing transports you back into that stunning but mysterious world. I loved getting into the ancient Mayan mythology and enjoyed this book.

Terrible book. More parano than NEWS, with none of that book's excitement (which was low). Why don't you come out of the closet Heather and just write steamy leabian fiction? I'd buy that.