each one novel within the sequence, "The direction Of The Jaguar," contains a previous existence record of an analogous soul, occasionally male occasionally woman, evolving within the context of the foremost ancient occasions that span (and later characterised) the vintage Maya civilization.
“Jaguar” is a metaphor for the soul. "Jaguar Wind And Waves," the second one within the sequence, is a narrative of purification and private transformation led to via a woman’s fight to deal with her husband's harmful judgements coupled with an extreme wish to give a contribution to her neighborhood.
378 C.E. In achievement of an alliance prepared by means of their fathers, the daughter of Lord Chak Tok Ich’aak, ruler of Mutal (Tikal) in Guatemala, is shipped off to marry the son of 1 of the lords of Tollan (Teotihuacan in critical Mexico). with a purpose to satisfy her husband’s charter—to convey a sacred prophecy and determine a brand new order within the lowland jungle cities—he destroys his wife’s kinfolk and makes an attempt to erase even the reminiscence of her father and the previous rulers.
Battered through wave upon wave of emotional turmoil created through her husband and his enforcer’s intrusions opposed to her humans Ix Bahlam, "Lady Jaguar" descends into an emotional abyss. The shaman’s analysis is soul loss. makes an attempt to heal her anger, bitterness, and guilt face up to therapy as hopelessness ends up in depression. Is a girl without end trapped by way of the selections of her husband? what's the nature of the demon that has her in its grip? Is it attainable to defeat it, to discover her actual Self and reside in peace? Her beginning prophecy—that she may conflict a powerful demon amidst “powerful winds and waves”—has come real. this is often the tale of that conflict and her upward push from the abyss.