Legends of Ek Naab
// May 13th, 2011 // thoughts, videos
OK I’m back to blogging. Although – I did record a new song that I’ve been practicing! (see the video box)
This is a place of many legends. I found a second-hand book – ‘Legends of Ek Naab’ in the marketplace the other day, printed about fifty years ago. You’ll never guess who it was by…Blanco Vigores! The name wasn’t on the front cover, but I found it inside.
Some of the legends, I already knew. Like the story of Chan and Albita, the teenagers who were crazy in love and then died together, lost in the Depths. 
Chan and Albita had gone searching for a poetry-obsessed kid, Kan’ek who went off by himself, all depressed because his girl wouldn’t marry him. When he came back he wasn’t interested in poetry any longer but he smelled of gardenias and it drove all the girls wild.
Then there’s the story of the miracle of Our Lady of the Hibiscus, who made all theose flowers bloom in dark, labyrinthine tunnels. And the one about the storm which came and blew everyone away.
It seems that Blanco was something of an expert on the legends. He certainly spends enough of our conversations telling me them. Today I was thinking about the story of ‘Gilded Juancho’. 6. Gilded Juancho.
Exiled from Ek Naab when his wife had a third child, Juancho left the city to seek his fortune and returned via the tunnels. He didn’t make it but his gilded body was found, perfectly preserved, twenty years later.
I mean, what’s that supposed to tell us? That there was some kind of ominous punishment for having a third child? It’s true that there aren’t any third children, in fact there aren’t many families with two kids, from what I can tell.
It’s not easy to live in a confined space. You have to limit almost everything. Even brotherly love. Maybe that’s why I settled in so well – it’s a world of only children.
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do you think blanco went to the sect of huracan willingly or was forced?
I dunno. I’m really worried. (Y_Y)
if martienu got killed shouldn’t there be a timeline with no sect?
How do you know about this?!! I only just got back!
It’s an interesting question. Martineau existed in my timeline until he started time-travelling. And he happened to die in the past, but he was still around until – well, whenever he got hold of a time -travel bracelet. I’m guessing that was from Blanco, but I don’t really know.
So since he existed in our timeline until a few weeks ago, then that explains his work with the Sect.
But the Sect has been going for a long time. Montoyo told me that it existed for ages as a death cult within Ek Naab, and they left the city.
What makes me kind of happy is to think of the Sect now, wondering what happened to Martineau. He’d have just disappeared, blinked away into a time vortex and never returned.
Serves him right.
h josh, u and ixchel gettin on? haha glad what happened to Martinau!! lmaoo! anyways, ran in to anyone else yet, time travelled again? please keep me informed!
Some BIG STUFF has happened since my last blog entry. Like HUGE! Don’t have time to go into detail.
I’m not one to kiss and tell, though.
But I think I am finally getting somewhere with Ixchel.
Josh, what sort of big stuff happened? please tell us! just a little bit.
how is your mum getting on?how is Ixchel? and how are YOU getting on??
Well it’s weird because it seems like kai and benjy have some idea about what’s been going on since my last blog entry (secret within a secret).
It was all romantic, like out of some kind of movie, we were on a beach in Mexico, and the sunset and playing the guitar and stuff…
Basically I DID time travel and it was fully strange and crazy and there are people messing around with the timeline in the past of Ek Naab, I say people but actually I mean Martineau.
Anyway, Martineau is dead, as in, he was killed somewhere in the past. So now the Sect won’t have any idea where he is or what happened to him. He will simply have blinked out of existence!
And there’s more but I just don’t have the energy to tell. Martineau died in the past and that put us into a slightly different timeline, but everything is pretty much the same as I remember before Martineau changed the past by stealing the Ix Codex.
So time can be changed! And major stuff can happen – like a whole other timeline where you don’t exist!
Believe me I am STILL getting my head around that.
On a personal front, all good, all VERY GOOD.
I got with Ixchel.
One day I will write all this down and send it back in time and you can all read about it. For now I have to STUDY!
The maths homework I get nowadays IT IS NOT EVEN FUNNY.
All this to learn to fly a Muwan…
surely it is worth all the maths homework to fly a muwan! I would do tons of maths to get to fly one.
It is great you got with Ixchel! Good for you!
It sounds cool you sending stuff back in time.
Did you find it scary, going back in time not knowing anyone? I would be scared.
It was MENTALLY scary. I still have nightmares about Rain Son. The way he looked at me, I could tell he wanted to slice me up and break my bones. The parallel world though, after the nuclear war, was very, very strange. I try not to think about how happy I was there. It makes me feel horrible and selfish to admit it, but there was something dreamlike and peaceful about it. But it felt all wrong, too. Not sure I’m explaining it v well. I wonder if you know what I mean?
hey whats with Benicio pulled a gun on me? i want to know more! ive been left just loathing Benicio and wondering how the- how on earth you got to writing that as a blog, my only sign that you live – i mean you ended up hanging from the very Muwan you’d just been flying!
OK, you know what? I think I’m definitely going to write a book about my life and bring it back into the past one day. It’s the only way to explain how you all know so much about me.
Hanging from a Muwan??? Benicio pulled a gun on me? This is news to me!
Hi Josh! How is life in Ek Naab? Is your mum well? And Ixchell . . . It’s great that you can fly a muwan. What’s it like to fly it?
Hi Rajan. Life is full of maths! Maths and the theory of flying. And memorizing Muwan control panels so that I can fly blindfolded. I’m not joking. Benicio actually put a blindfold on me the other day and made me do a take off. I nearly melted, I was sweating so much.
My mum is good, thanks for asking. She has started being a bit more sociable. Tonight she’s going to her first dinner party (with Montoyo, of course.)
Benicio pulled a gun?? on you??
I know right? Maybe the sect got to him when the whole Ixchell/Josh thing happened! Or.. Maybe it could be the hypnosis drug making him do it? Also, I wanted to say, if the bracelet is also good for teleportation, couldn’t the sect just warp into Ek Naab whenever? Just a heads up on that one, because I think it could be a real risk.
They certainly could except for two things: I’m pretty sure that Martineau had the only other bracelet. And now, Bosch has that one – he took it when Martineau died.
And the other reason is that I don’t think they know the exact location of Ek Naab. You’d need the coordinates.
I’ve been wondering about that other bracelet, the one Bosch has. He promised to leave it for me. I think about him from time to time. If we went to the late twentieth century, it’s just possible (just) that he’s still alive…
why is myyoung wippersnapper eating cookies again even though l it told not too. do we have a library in summertown because if we do i haven’t found it yet oh and whats the date the worlds gonna get wiped again? december 2?th
i am not dissing the book or its sources but ive done a lot of research and the world is actualy ment to end on the 21st december
barley = barely
so r u origianlly mexian or oxfordshiren because i’m very confused with that in your booky thing it doesn’t make it very obvious.
Dad was Mexican, I was born in Oxford. Yes there is a library in Summertown, at least there was when I lived there (which was less than a year ago so…) On South Parade…
do you like it in Ek Naab or is it just a prison like you said when you went back in time
Well I like it better now that I’ve finally managed to prise a certain girl away from my cousin
Also – soon gonna start my flying lessons…woooooohoooooo
I have to pass some maths exams first though, so better get back to these five fiendish mechanics problems that I’ve been set.
*hurty head*
Hey josh! Your life seems pretty cool! It’s amazing how you’ve Beaten up loads of people, gone back in time, and been so brave! But would you rather have this exciting and amazing life over the one you had in Oxford?
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To have a choice would be nice! Nah, just kidding. I’m cool with it now. You can used to a lot of different things. I’ve met some amazing people, seen some incredible things. Wouldn’t swap that for anything.
This is an awesome website and your life is crazy wicked Josh. though i wouldnt swap my life for yours (no offence). I saw you shredding on your guitar and singing holliday on your clip. your okay. I do music as well. im in a band called Eclipse (still debating the name) we jam and sing and right our own songs and everything and were trying to get ourselves noticed on the BBC. Cool right.
Dude I watched your practice on Holiday by green day and i was pshyched there were some bits scratchy but you hit the right tabs my mates and i have formed a band called Epic (were still having fights about the name) and we have totally mastered that song. Main guitarist Piender has the same guitar as you and trust me many more, Green our drummer was mad over it – Kemp pianst made up his own input and Charlie arogant bass player pouring literal sweat onto it. i’m a singer i do other stuff but this is my main part (loving it) we also write our own songs our one favourite “Running in hell “. next week having a Bandslam sort of concert hoping to get noticed by BBC, wish us luck. And if you ever need advice on music just blog. p.s love the books, am i morbid to be excited by tragedy if 2012 happens, oh and have you actualy figured out if you are Arcadio also can you please youtube some of your own caperio moves ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! reply please.
woah it’s me agian writing because of the lack of exitement in this world. hey did i tell you i was 13 (a girl) and i’m practicing to be an animator. what the key is, is getting the right programme (it is expensive) i have bought the simple version of the computer system that made the animation of Assasins Creeds Revelation, because of the pure agility and fast pace action in the proggramme not to mention the graphics. all it takes is a little coding and design, a real life idea on character pics and video on real life surroundings to turn to animation and wallah you have a scene, the real problem is recording vioces into it , i usaully do my own than alter it but it takes ages. anyway this is the most boring Saturday all my mates grounded for what we did last week (can’t tell you, let’s just say i don’t regret it),okay i’ll tell you we acted like we were drunk when we were perfectly sane made a riot at the train station got into a couple of scruffs no worry and don’t think i’m bad, i’m a straight ‘A’ student we all have messy times boy who lied to his mother to find out more than he bagained for. how are you and Ixchel and do you know about the bases and if you do what level are you at………….. im just kidding (am i !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha i make myself laugh. )
Hey Everyone what Aurora Goddess of dawn neglected to add is that i am part of the band too, i am a singer also the identical twin sister to the girl who just neglected to add me to the conversation (that is Aurora if you have’nt figured out yet). While my sister plots to be in the film industry i am targeting to be a genetic scientist and inventor. I dont want to be morbid or anything but there have been some blackouts in my area do you think the EMP superwave is coming faster than the mayans predicted.
Hello Aurora and Alexia, wow – TWO rock stars in one family, pretty cool. There’s a shortage of guitarists in Ek Naab. Basically it’s just me, but I’m working on persuading some others to join me. I reckon if the world doesn’t end at the end of this year (and that IS the plan, that we stop the superwave!!!), then we’ll have one heck of a party and I’ll play some tunes. Holiday, maybe, as you’ve seen. Maybe something else too.
Animation software _ I’ve never tried that. Not very good at drawing! What software are you talking about Aurora? If you can make stuff like Assassins Creed it must be good.
Grounded – don’t I know all about that. I am basically grounded in Ek Naab, just for travelling in time, not that I even meant to do it!!!
What I’d give just for a chance to go to the nearest town and just hang out at the beach! Or the lake at Bacalar. I WISH.
Thankyou for asking….. Check out “Ubisoft” thier the company that designed, created and produced the Assasin Creed Revalation programme which i bought directly from them, again expensive. At the momment i’m trying to make this horror fictional book called Scared to death by Allan Gibbons (check it out) into a real animation. i would make your book into one except for the fact that it’s set in mostly Mexico and Oxford which is hard too get video and shots from (especially in Ek Naab) scared to death is set in east london so easy access. Our bandslam concert to get noticed by the BBC has been set back til March but at least it means more practice “right”, my mates were being funny they think thier right jokers. We had been recording all day at the studio at our schooll my voice was scratchy and there was this bottlle of water in the corner i did’nt know who it was for but i was suddenly craving it my best freind and band pianist Kemp saw me eyeing it and he said it was his and told me i could skyve it as you can tell i drink most of his drinks and steal his food and we all have a good laugh. So what did i do, i skyved- there was this horrible taste to it, i spat it out and Kemp burst out laughing. Then he told me it was’nt his and that it has been there for days, all the band mates start laughing including Alexia. i’m not any wimp so i grab Kemp and knuckle him on the head he drops to the ground pretends he’s in pain i get concerened then he chases me around and agian we have a good laugh so how’s your relationship with Tyler being long distance friends and all when i moved house i lost track with my freind Tobi and now i’ve lost his number. etc.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My god watching TV and saw the new programmmed video game for Resident Evil have you seen the movie. Anyway you do relise i am chatting to you from England, esssex born in London but have lived here for the last two years, Dude are you in Mexico right now and if you are awesome p.s.s tell me about the movies they broadcast there.
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Hey Aurora! Mind showing a display over here?
Aurora – Tyler and I do a fair bit of chat and Skype. He’s busy now though, with mock GCSE exams and everything. Still has no girlfriend, from what I can tell…
I don’t play video games any more, not since I get to fly an actual Muwan! Actually I do quite a lot of flight simulator, which I suppose is a kind of game. My favourite game used to be Zelda. The last one I played was Twilight Princess.
You sound like you have a lot of fun with your mates. My life is NOT like that, and I wish it were. Never mind. Just another few months to go until we save the world and then hopefully I’ll get my life back.
You can get satellite TV in Mexico just like anywhere, so you can watch pretty much any movies. However, I tend to watch stuff via the Internet. The last film I really liked was Inception. Cannot wait for Dark Knight Rises!
Just wanted to ask-
Is Ice Shock available in India?
Copies of ICE SHOCK have sold in India according to the royalty statements, so it should be!
Hey Josh,
Does the book of crazy Benicio really excist?
Ha ha, if it doesn’t it SHOULD. I did have a blog post about Crazy Benicio…but I deleted it. HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT?
Ugh. I bet that MG Harris woman has been snooping on my blog – AGAIN.
Josh,
Do you really excist or it os just the computer who answers for you?
Real, man, real! If you prick me do I not bleed! I still have my gunshot wound scar from when Madison shot me and Susannah St John patched me up!