#gukumatz

Feathered Serpent

Can you please explain what's going on here?

A while ago, I started reading a book that involved a lot of fantasy stuff, with the protagonist being the descendant of a famous "sage" of the past and his friends being various magical beings who help him.

Anyway, the book I was reading had the protagonist fall off a cliff and die in the first chapter or something, and the author decided that he would then be reincarnated into a magical monkey.

It was just after the cliff-falling, I guess, and his new name was Gukumatz.

The book was very good, and I've since read quite a few fantasy books with similar premises, so I kind of enjoy this concept.

The guy in the original post here is Gukumatz, who is going down the hill to get to the princess -- the princess will give him "an elixir for wisdom" (it's a metaphor for being reincarnated) and then he'll know everything, because he'll be the sage himself, his parents' greatest accomplishment.

The problem, of course, is that, as Gukumatz goes downhill, he becomes a monkey. In fact, he becomes all monkeys, the other animals in the forest growing smaller and smaller and becoming progressively more monkey-like. There are lots of monkeys in the forest -- most of them hate him, except for a few who respect him as a sage and want to help him. There are also other forest creatures that are much, much more monkey-like, like the snake guy in the picture -- you can only sort of see him in this picture, but I remember that one guy looks like he was a particularly nasty monkey. In the background of this picture is a human figure who is "so wise" that he doesn't even realize that his life is hopelessly messed up, and he doesn't have the slightest idea that the monkey is there, so Gukumatz's situation seems hopeless.

Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods Part III Plumed Serpent: Central America (part one)

Remaining in the New World, that treasurehouse of “mysteries” that most of his readers will find unfamiliar, Graham Hancock turns his attention to what he calls Central America (why do so many people not understand that Mexico, Guatemala and Belize are NorthAmerican countries?). This region was the home to a number of spectacular civilisations, of which two—the Maya and the Aztecs—are likely to…

Also Known As :Éhecatl, Gukumatz, Kukulkán

Quetzalcoátl, the cleverest, most peaceful and least bloodthirsty of the Atzlánti, has been a priest and a king, a builder and a lawgiver, an engineer, an astronomer and a doctor—and that is his legendary persona. Pale, silver-haired and bearded, Quetzalcoátl is tall and athletic, garbed in the brilliant green and red feathers of his namesake bird. Requiring a blood sacrifice but once a year, the God of the feathered serpent pushes mortals to create beauty and art, to live joyfully in the present moment and to achieve their highest ambitions both individually and as societies. He specializes in creating golden ages.

In modern times, this means that he rarely sticks with one identity for very long. He might be a painter in the morning, an elderly engineer in the afternoon and a first-time lover in the evening. He enjoys dancing until dawn while a digital calculator rides in his hip pocket, so he can calculate the tensile strength of a new skyscraper’s steel beams on the job site the next morning. He is always beautifully dressed for the occasion (whatever it is).

His Scions are similarly energetic, with a hundred projects all racing to completion simultaneously. They inspire others to feats of artisanship and have an easy time creating worldwide cultural phenomena, from new trends in fashion to revivals of old musical forms. They are always on the edge of the next new and hip thing. They are also almost always exhausted, and their successes inspire bitter jealousies.