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lost and sat down to rest right here on this rock. I then heard a fluttering of leaves coming over from where you’re standing. Next out of nowhere appears this raccoon-like mammal. I mean it wasn’t there and then suddenly it was! I thought that’s weird as I would have heard it coming, or seen it as it moved quite slowly.”
    Helen approached Jason pushing aside the moss like curtain to reveal a three foot opening in the rock face. It was large enough for a grown man to pass through with ease. Jason peered inside the darkness, which seemed like a cave entrance. Helen instructed two of the locals to wait outside for them.
    “Shall we proceed inside?” said Helen, who was excited to show them what she had discovered.
    The other two locals led the way inside with a large flashlight showing the way. Jason entered last.
    The pathway was barely three feet wide, causing them to walk at a slow pace for at least ten minutes. The air inside was moist and sticky. The walls were apparently cut by man as chisel marks could be seen on each side. It must have taken years to dig this far inside.
    Helen stopped as they approached an opening.
    “This is it. This is the room we discovered,” she said.
    Everyone stepped inside. The room was well-lit up by their flashlights. It was a large square room, fifteen feet by twenty. The wall to the right was covered with Mayan hieroglyphs and were really well preserved, hidden from the elements after all these years. Jason studied the writing. He was amazed at what he saw.
    “Can you read this?” He asked Helen.
    She came over and stood next to him, then started to interpret the meanings, explaining each word carefully.
    “The passage to Xibalba, the name used for the underworld. Ruled by the death gods and their helpers. There are twelve gods, or powerful rulers, also known as the lords of Xibalba.”
    Helen continued to explain that the first among the Mayan death gods ruling Xibalba were Hun-Came (one death) and Vocab-Came (seven death). Hun-Came being the senior. The remaining ten lords are referred to as demons and are given commission, domain over various forms of human suffering: to cause sickness, spiritual fear, pain and then death.
    Helen continued explaining the hieroglyphs while Danny and Jason listened with great interest. The remaining writing, as Helen explained, told these lords worked in pairs and are Xiquiripat (flying scab), and Cuchumaquic (gathered blood), who sicken people’s blood.
    Helen was on the last line of the hieroglyphs.
    She said, “the remaining words say the names of the other lords and their purposes.”
    Jason turned to Helen and Danny and said, “so this place is considered the passage into the Mayan underworld. No wonder it’s way out in the jungle, far away from the other Mayan temples.”
    They remained inside the room checking every crack and crevice. The walls were amazingly smooth to the touch, as if they were cut with a laser. One of the mysteries still not solved about the Mayan people.
    Helen then showed them another doorway that led them to yet another passage descending deeper underground. The walls resembled the passage they first entered, rough to the touch. In front of them stood an archway, with two dug out sections in the wall.
    Helen said, “this is where we found the statue and the bronze plaque. One in each section of the wall. I placed them inside a metal box which were then taken back to camp, ready to be transported to the museum for further studies.”
    Jason asked Helen, “were they the only items that were stolen?”
    Helen replied, “yes, that’s right.”
    Danny was curious to know why the statue and plaque were placed here just outside the archway.
    “This is the passageway into the underworld. Only the high priests were allowed to pass beyond this arch. It was their way of communication with the underworld lords and demons,” explained Helen.
    Danny took a step back, letting Jason enter first.
    “Don’t worry,