For as long as I can remember my curiosity has been aroused by reports of the unusual and unexplainable. Religious texts and artifacts depicting various types of flying machines, pyramids and massive stone structures are explained away by the use of thousands of slaves hauling massive blocks of stone up one half mile long ramps. They are stones that were quarried using impossibly primitive tools to tolerances that could not be duplicated today. Ancient drawings and carvings of flying machines are described as inept pictures of birds. And what of enormous drawings visible only from the air created well before the time Christ? Or how is it possible that the frozen remains of a mammoth could be found in the Arctic with the undigested remains of its last meal still in its stomach. Precious Serpent is a fictional story of the life of the High Priest, Lán of a long forgotten religion. He accidentally stumbles upon an a thousand year old underground library with books written in an unknown tongue. Laborious translation reveals that everything he has been taught including his beliefs in a pantheon of gods are false. His society both political and religious is totally corrupt. He embarks upon a disastrous program of reform that breeds chaos and catastrophe wherever he turns. He is saved from execution by the husband of his lover. In exchange for his life Lán flees, promising never to return. He leaves behind the woman who is the enduring love of his life. Arriving upon what is today known as the Yucatan; Lán is welcomed as the God Quetzalcoatl, the Precious Serpent. Over a period of thirty years Lán creates a great society that we today know as the Mayan's golden age of Anahauc. After 30 years he longs to return to his roots and the woman he still loves. Prior to his departure he warns that he will come back to severely punish any of the people who might stray from his teachings. This warning paved the way for Cortez's impossible defeat of the powerful Aztec empire. On his return Lán discovers that the revolution he incited has destroyed the country of his birth and its inhabitants. He learns that the woman he loves escaped to Egypt where she introduced Lan's concept of one God to the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh embraces the concept of one God and commences the reform the religion of that country. History of the Pharaoh Akhenaton relates those disastrous results. The book combines known historical fact with the fictional journey through Lan's life It is a journey upon which the answers too many of history's unusual and unexplainable mysteries are viewed in a new light.
About the Author: S. Guy Lovelace was born in Kansas City, Missouri and he grew up in Syracuse, New York. He studied engineering at Cornell University and Liberal Arts and Architecture at Syracuse University. He has been the owner of an Architectural/Interior Design firm, a Construction firm and a Caribbean hotel as well as furniture manufacturing operations in Mexico, Haiti and Costa Rica. Upon retiring in 2002 he seriously pursued his previous hobby of writing. His first book The Carnival Never Got Started was published in 2005. It is the hilarious account of his and his family's experiences designing, building and operating a small Caribbean Boutique Inn. It was followed By Evil in the Islands in 2006 and a Second edition The Carnival Never Got Started Redux in 2008. In 2011 he published three books on both kindle and as paperbacks. The first of the three was Of Daemons Possessed. It is six stories of Demonic possession leading to murder and madness. In the second book, The Story Teller, the stories range in subject matter from re-incarnation in Love at First Sight to Marmey an allegory on the sadness of aging. Blood Brothers explores the true meaning of friendship While The Entrepreneur, Harlan's Gifts and The Stereopticon present radically different approaches to becoming wealthy. The Twelve Dollar Dinner provides comic relief, with an opportunity to chuckle at the miscues of a naive young couple on their first time abroad. The Collection in the Claw Foot Curio was originally written in 1971 as a collection of ghost and horror stories to entertain the authors' young children. The stories have been re-written for an adult audience and published in 2011. In 2012 he finished 2 books that were started 15 years earlier. His memoir, I Once was an Architect and a novel of historic fiction, Precious Serpent He also helped his wife in the publication of her memoir / cookbook, Caribbean Cooking made Simple. All of the books are available from amazom.com, bookstores or the author's website guysplantationpress.com.