Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Reina Roja

Hola!!!!!!
I read a book called “Reina Roja” (Red Queen). It was written by Adriana Malvido. It’s about a Mayan queen. Fanny Lopez and her team discovered a sarcophagus in 1994, in Palenque, Chiapas state of Mexico. The called that as “Red Queen”, as the bones were in red colour due to a substance the Mayans added to the dead body. They knew that the sarcophagus was of an important person as it had Jade mask and skeletons of 2 other person with it. The two skeletons signify that the souls of these two persons will accompany the soul of main body to the nine worlds, which they had to cross to reach either one of the three heavens. They presumed that the sarcophagus could be mother or grandma or wife or daughter-in-law of a great Mayan king of Palenque called Pakal. Pakal’s sarcophagus was found 50 years ago in the same region. They compared Pakal’s bones and the queen’s bones to see if there was any DNA resemblance. But recently they found that there isn’t any resemblance between them. Hence the sarcophagus could be his mother or grandma. So they think that the Reina Roja may be his wife or daughter-in-law. But many believe that it could be his wife. It isn’t sure who the Reina Roja is yet. The true name of the Reina Roja is still a mystery. But when they searched more to find the identity of Reina Roja, they found many other Mayan secrets in Palenque. This book is very interesting. I liked it.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Se oye muy interesante!!
se lo voy a buscar a Alan para que lo lea también.
Gracias por tus escritos siempre es muy agradable leer lo que escribes.
Saludos
Nancy