House of the Jaguar [Paperback]

C. Charis Coyle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2006

The Clarion Call of the hero's journey burns deep in the cells of bone and blood. Come, it whispers...Leave behind your world of fact, figure and logic to enter deep into the magic and mythos of a realm far beyond the boundaries of time.

The year is 2012 and End Times threaten as the ancient Mayan calendar prepares to roll over to a new Great Age. Earthquakes have begun to shake apart the bones of the earth, splintering the boundaries that separate inner and outer realities. World survival is at stake as creatures, never meant to know the light of day, step through from the Xibalban underworld into time. The only hope for transforming this time of destruction into a time of rebirth rests with an American teen and an unlikely group of shamanic allies, as they struggle to play this ballgame of life.

Editorial Reviews

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House Of The Jaguar is to be given high praise for its originality, and is very highly recommended -- Midwest Book Review, April 2006

Provides thrilling adventure and subtle teaching about another culture, and soul level training for young people seeking new possibility. -- Margaret Rubin, Director of the Center for Sacred Theater, June 2006

Takes the reader through a wildly fascinating journey into the truth of who and what they really are. -- Jean Houston, PH.D., Author of A Mythic Life, June 2006

About the Author

C. Charis Coyle is an eclectic storyteller of the strange, the unusual and the eclectic with threads of connection to computer science and quantum physics; to mythology, consciousness studies and world religions; to wisdom cultures, theater and dance. As Transformational Talesman, her passion is to return storytelling to an artform similar to that practiced by the bards of old. Honoring the message that the destiny of the world is shaped less by its battles than by its stories, Charis supports the need for big vibrant stories to stretch imaginations and prime our minds for outrageous possibility. Her goal is to promote and engage in such transformational storytelling both as an author and mythic performer, as well as encouraging others, especially the youth of the world,to raise their voices in their own praise songs as they re-member how to story the universe to life.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Mystecha (April 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976868105
• ISBN-13: 978-0976868101
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,898,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping new Mayan mythology oriented action/adventure science fiction novel for young readers, April 10, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

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House Of The Jaguar by mythologist, systems analyst, internet marketer, and iconoclast C. Charles Coyle is a gripping new Mayan mythology oriented action/adventure science fiction novel for young readers. Engaging the reader from first page to last, House Of The Jaguar is a futuristic tale of Kat, an American teenager confined in her youth to the moderns of technology and the digital age, in her confrontation with a digressing, broken world as result of earthquakes and the release of an underworld creature, the Xibalban, and her alliance with shamanic tribesmen in an ultimate struggle for life. House Of The Jaguar is to be given high praise for its originality, and is very highly recommended as an intriguing read science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts.

5.0 out of 5 stars Mythic Transformational Tale - Not Literal Depiction of Guatemala, October 16, 2011

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This Young Adult/teen tale is an inner exploration of the depth of the psyche/soul. Although the story is set in Guatemala it is not a literal depiction of life in Guatemala but rather a tranformational journey meant to act as an initiatory tale for those of us starved for initiaion in this overly rational world. It uses archetypal-like story in the same way the ancient Greeks used it in their theatrical extravaganzas, allowing the participants to draw upon the play as a ritual of catharsis so they did not have to literally allow the themes to play themselves out on the stage of their daily lives.

The pages of the tale should be entered as though entering into an initiation, recognizing the universal aspect of the characters as flavors of ourselves, exploring how they resonate with our own inner depth workings. Anyone who enters the pages from a rational mindset is bound to be disappointed, missing the complex twisting and turnings of the archetypal journey that the story explores as it descends into the inner realm (cave)of the subconscious/unconscious.

On the outer level the tale is quite simple, using a current mythical motif (the myth of 2012)to keep the dragons of the mind busy, marrying the myth to a modern day concern (ecological devastation) to come up with a heroic initiation tale of healing and wholing, a window of opening that seems to make its first conscious appearance in the teenage years (like Percival finding the Grail castle for the first time). The story stays true to the task of following the path laid out in "The Hero's Journey," hinting at more realities than those found only on the surface of a tale. It explores all levels of the Hero's Journey, from the Call to Adventure, the Refusal of the Call, Meeting the Mentor, Crossing the Threshold, Meeting the Allies, the Ordeal, Accessing the Boon, and finally the Return to the world from which the journey began. The book seems to follow what I would call the "Way of the Jaguar," using a totem ally to access one's deepest woundings in order to heal the inner spots and knots of the soul, and in the process the woundings of the earth as well since each of us is a hologram of the whole.

Don't let the simplicity of the story fool you, for deep inside the transformatinal tale a wondrous chain of events is unleashed that can affect the reader on many levels, helping jumpstart their process of reconnecting with the often overlooked but thoroughly entangled parts of the Self.

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible book, October 8, 2011

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sandy (Tiburon, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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I traveled in Guatemala and thought this could be interesting. Terribly written, could have been a high school project. Possibly a first project?