Awakening
Cocijo
by
Thomas Juarez
Genre:
Metaphysical Fiction
Chaotic
skies reveal untold prophecies. A storm rises. Can a boy quell the
fury of a god?Join the Zapotec on a journey through time and across
generations.
Referring
to themselves as the cloud people, their fierce warriors conquered
and ruled the Oaxaca for centuries. Witness rites, rituals and
incantations aimed at appeasing the divine in an attempt to gain
favor; favor that would grant them greatness. So, where did it all go
wrong? Why would such powerful gods allow their disciples to be
conquered? These answers and more would be offered many centuries
later by their descendants. Descendants of a civilization whose glory
can only be revived by the awakening of the most powerful deity in
Zapotec lore: Cocijo, the god of lightening and rain.
Beedxe’ knelt in front of the beast, extending fisted hands clenching the jaguar stones; stones that Danaà said possessed enchantment and invocation from the great uija-tào himself. The beast snarled, releasing a thunderous clamoring of violent roars. Confidence now consumed the young nagual. He believed! He was Nagual, and he was now standing before the spirit animal sent to him from the gods. The snarling reduced to a grumble as the majestic cat circled in front of the curiously emboldened boy. Beedxe’ thrust his fists forward again, gesturing for approval.
Thomas
(Tom) Juarez is a retired United States Army soldier with about
twenty-one years of active federal service. Hailing from Wetumpka,
Alabama, Tom currently enjoys his military retirement with his wife
in Sterling, Oklahoma.
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