The Legends And The Inca Crystals, by Lia Ginno

This book has 223 pages and is suitable for 9  years PLUS.

  In the beginning…

PROLOGUE

A silver-grey head of hair, with a face crinkled by time and eyes glazed over like a lizard appeared from the deep vastness of a stone alter.

            “Have you got it?”

            “Yes, yes,” the blind Shaman answered as the four men standing above him helped him out of the shadowy tomb and then pulled up the dangling rope ladder.

            The old Shaman languished weakly on the bottom ledge of the massive bulk of stone, hearing his four Shaman friends slide the heavy mortar lid back across the alter top.

            “Are you sure the tooth will grow again?” he asked.

            “Yes, I know it will, within weeks and I will cut this one into three pieces,” one of the old men answered.

            “Well Rani, you can then give the stones to your great grand daughter with our blessing.  Our work is now done.” The blind Shaman held out his trembling hand, handing a glowing crystal to Rani.   Catching a strand of golden sunlight coming through the open entrance door of the temple, the crystal grew luminescent.

            “Careful,” one of the younger Shamans said to Rani.

            Rani hastily put the crystal into a small box. “Thank you. Now let us leave this sanctuary.”

            On bent legs, hobbling, holding Rani’s arm the blind Shaman crossed with his friend the Sun temple’s granite floor and out into the dense Amazon forest.  A low cloud hung over the sacred ruins, as if the image of the temple was an illusionary vision.

            Two hidden grey eyes watched the five Shamans departure.  A smile flickered in her eyes.  “I hope the chosen ones, live up to their inheritance and destiny,” she muttered to herself.

“What’s a Shaman?” asked Calum, his eyes big and round as he gazed at Katelin.
“There sort of magic, holy people who are very wise and they travel the spirit world. They have visions and can heal the sick; they can influence the weather and know things in the future. Sometimes they have to become animals to enter the spirit world or they need usually an animal spirit as their guide to help them see their visions. Page 47


When she breathed out, her breath stuck suspended in the cold air. Every muscle she possessed was relaxed. She felt chills go up and down her spine, as the ebbing of time seemed to elude her. She closed her eyes and felt mesmerized as though her life force was ablaze, and a divine presence seem to surround her, she felt like the only person on earth. Page 86


“This orb has symbols of two interlocking circles representing the union of heaven and earth; spirit and matter; conscious and unconscious, if you hold it in the firelight. It has vast magical powers.” Page 152


A prism of multi colours flowed round the children and the circle until the whole of the area was one large transparent crystal, so vibrant that the children disappeared within it. Page 164
 

The wizard, about three hundred metres tall and looking as if he was touching the sky, emerged between the children.  His long white hair had turned to electric wires that stuck out about his head and he seemed to have electric currents sparking and dancing round them.

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