The Lost City by J & P Voelkel

Author:J & P Voelkel [Voelkel, J&P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60684-377-2
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: 2015-02-09T16:00:00+00:00

“But do you know why?”

She shook her head.

“He was a space traveler! An extraterrestrial!”

Lola gaped at her.

“I know, right!” The girl hugged herself. “The shells are the ocean and the bird is the air and we are the earth. Great Sun says that one day soon the Birdman will come back for us. He says the Maya predicted it.”

Lola looked confused. “The Maya? What have the Maya got to do with it?”

The girl took Lola’s hand. “Pyramids. We’re connected by them. You, me, everyone. We all came from another world and, wherever we landed, our masters built pyramids.”

“You’re saying that aliens built all the pyramids?”

The girl nodded, her eyes shining. “Cahokia, Central America, Egypt … They built pyramids all over the world.”

“I’m sorry,” said Lola, “but that’s not right. I know for sure that the Maya built the Maya pyramids.”

The girl snickered. “Yeah, right! Like a bunch of savages could build those amazing pyramids! They’re astronomically correct, you know.”

Lola looked like she might explode with anger.

Max stepped in to give her time to calm down. “That’s interesting,” he said to the girl. “We came here to find out about Great Sun. What else can you tell us?”

“You should look on the Internet,” she said. “There are whole Web sites about this stuff.”

“Wow.” Max pretended to be impressed. “It must be true, then!”

“No, I’m sorry,” Lola burst out. “I can’t listen to this. My ancestors built those pyramids with brains and brute strength. How dare you give the credit to some spacemen?”

“You’re Maya?” The girl looked surprised. “I thought the Maya had all vanished in spaceships already.”

“No,” said Lola. “There are still quite a few of us actually.”

“That’s great,” said the girl unenthusiastically. “You should do a workshop while you’re here. You could learn a lot.”

Lola made a noise like a teakettle coming to a boil.

Max pulled her away. “You’re as bad as Lord 6-Dog. You have to hide your emotions or we’ll never learn anything.”

“But it’s so insulting. How can she believe everything she reads on the Internet? Her logic defeats me.”

“Nothing defeats you, Monkey Girl.”

Lola groaned. “What’s happened to me? We’ve swapped roles. You’re supposed to be the hothead and I’m supposed to be the sensible one.”

“You’re always so touchy about Maya stuff. It’s your Achilles’ heel.”

“Wrong mythology.”

“Yeah, well.” He looked toward the stage. “Now what’s happening?”

As the audience shielded their eyes from the dazzling sunrise, there was a fanfare of conch shell trumpets and Great Sun made his entrance.

He was carried in on a litter held by four men in jaguar-patterned Lycra loincloths. Great Sun was dressed as a Maya king. His features were obscured by his black-and-white face paint and the shadow cast by his magnificent black-and-white-feathered headdress.

“It’s Tzelek,” gasped Max.

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