Martín Prechtel Talk & Storytelling: The SIlly Banana Boy, the Holy Cloud Brothers and the Iron Monster

May 21, 2010 from 7:00pm to 9:30pm UTC-07
Location: Havurah Shir Hadash
Latest Activity: Nov 8, 2022

THE SILLY BANANA BOY, THE HOLY CLOUD BROTHERS AND THE IRON MONSTERA well loved Tzutujil Mayan story of the culture hero: the "littlest crooked cob on the stalk,' who when his love of play and small things matures into a life-giving rain, curing the Earth, causes the Mayan world to live healthily on, despite the presence of a heartless colonial mindset under which we all endeavor to survive.FRIDAY, MAY 21 • 7:00 pm$5 to $25 sliding scale at the door(No reservations needed.)• • •A master of eloquence and innovative language, Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtleirony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language.His life, the well known subject of his previous books, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, took him from his native New Mexico up-bringing as a half-blood, Native American from a Pueblo Indian reservation to the village of Santiago Atitlan, where he eventually served the Tzutujil Mayan population as a full village member, becoming a principal in the body of village leaders, responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories that took place in the rituals of adult rites of passage.Martín once again resides in his native New Mexico. Teaching internationally through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul. Broadly cherished, Martín’s third book, The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time, has become a runaway, underground hit. Martín’s fourth book, Stealing Benefacio’s Roses (published originally as The Toe Bone and the Tooth) brilliantly continues the story of his life and visionary understandings.• • •“The Mayan people’s main and ancient job is to be beautiful and grateful. Before meeting Martín, I’d never known a representative of such a culture. But I can testify to the integrity, the massive learning, the faithfulness, the lightheartedjoy and the hardworking nature of this representative.” - Robert Bly“Martín Prechtel is one of the most profound teachers I have ever encountered. He is an unusually gifted artist, musician and storyteller who guides and initiates with passion, kindness, eloquence, wisdom, fierceness and humor, awakening us to the sacred realities present everywhere at all times. To be with Martín is to remember the forgotten divinity that is the very essence of who we are.” - Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield, zt”l

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