MY-NAME-IS-KAKIX. YUKUB-KAKIX. ALL-MEN-FEAR-ME.

[dolari]

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http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/mayan-mythology.php?deity=VUCUB-CAQUIX

Mind you, I've always spelled it "Yukub Kakix" and he was a golem, but that probably comes from the book of ancient Mayan Fairy Tales that forgot to describe him as a bird and got his name wrong.

I compromised. I kept him a golem, but spelled his first name with a V.

The Shadow Golem was meant to show up much earlier. While working on Andrea's death scene, originally, shadows were supposed to come crawling around the tower and a shadow golem would have crawled around from the top, stomping his hands and shaking the tower until she fell. I scrapped that thinking that the Shadows don't really have a "physical" substance to be making stompy shakes with.

There's another golem out there named Chicxulub.

Comments

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

"I am Zipacna, whom men cannot slay/There's not that I fear save the watery way."

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

("naught". Sorry, it's way too late for me.)

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

!!!

SOMEONE ELSE READ TALES FROM SILVER LANDS?!?!

I thought I was the only one. :D My school had an old old broken down hardcover version of it from the 1930s! Even the one I found on Amazon was from the 60s! Wow!

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well my eyes popped a bit when I saw your header. : ) It's always neat to see an obscure reference.

I got _Tales From Silver Lands_ for one of my birthdays (eighth or ninth, probably) and really loved it. Some very surreal imagery, even with the rewriting and simplification for Anglo children. I saw a reprinted edition a couple of years ago at my university library, which had a very mild PC edit in the first story.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's time to seek out a new copy..the oneI have from the 60s is in good condition, but the spine glue is very brittle. What was the edit?

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Talking about the toddler at the very beginning of the first story. The original has "...like any other child, black, brown, or yellow," and the edit is "...like any child." I may have the wording slightly off (working from memory), but that's the gist.

[hurricane-amy.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what you're talking about but it's okay cause you're a cutie anyway!

And I was thinking about one of the drives we took a long time ago. I think it was in Boerne but I'm not sure. We drove through this little neighborhood and it was kind rural. Anyway, I was thinking about that because we stopped at the DQ to figure out where we were.