Word: healey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jungle Gods. The diplomatic approach has its uses for archeologists too. In 1945, Giles Greville Healey, archeologist for the United Fruit Co., struggled on foot and muleback into the ruin-haunted jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas. His assignment: to study the Lacandon Indians, thought to be the last remnant of the fabulous Mayas. The Lacandones still speak a Maya dialect, but have relapsed into shy and gentle savagery...
...Healey lived with the Lacandones in their remote jungles. Little by little he learned some of their secrets. The Mayan "Old Empire" of the region had fallen long ago; tropical vegetation covered its ruins. But the handful of Lacandones still worship in Mayan temples, keeping the old gods alive...
Archeologist Healey was led up a mysterious trail to a place called Bonampak, where eleven ancient temples lay hidden in the jungle. The biggest was called "El Tigre" (the mountain lion). When Healey entered its inner sanctum, a live mountain lion bounded out. This pleased the Lacandones; the temple's faithful guardian...
Bonampak was so big that Healey returned to civilization to get some help. Last winter United Fruit, in cooperation with the Carnegie Institution and the Mexican Government, sent a full-dress expedition to explore...
Backtracking fast, Mayor Healey announced that the suspension hearings were canceled, that the rookies would be restored to duty. But it was too late. An independent, veteran-backed ticket was gunning for the whole city administration in the fall elections. Last week, atop the bandwagon and not at all embarrassed, the Fearless Four had everything but their raise...