Courtesy of MKH who just reread Frederick Forsyth's The Fist of God:
To every man upon the earth
death cometh soon or late,
And how can a man die better
than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
and the temples of his God?
O C Macaulay
I myself just finished a book called The Two Crosses of Todos Santos. It is a book we've had for a long time, published in 1948 or so (we haven't had it that long!) written by a woman historian who spent 19 months in the mountains of Guatamala studying the customs of the Maya indians. It is an area we drove through when Megan was a baby, so I found the book interesting just geographically. But it was also interesting in terms of culture and the survival of more ancient traditions in modified forms. We had also coincidentally just read the book of Exodus with all its explanations of the law of sacrifice before I started reading about Todos Santos with all their sacrifices of roosters and turkeys.
Kind of an odd juxtapositioning.
Enjoy your day!!
2 comments:
Two comments: good old FF. I read Fist of God when i was back in Las Vegas. Good book. Great author.
Second: Woman historian? as opposed to being just an historian? Is this sexist or what?
Perhaps you mean a woman who is an historian but that is not what you wrote.
You got me. She was a woman and she was an historian as opposed to an anthropologist, which they made a point of in the preface. But, I was certainly not meaning to be sexist. Your father cheered you when I read your comment. Actually both comments! MOM
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