Show LOG IS OBJECT OF WORSHIP BY WEIRD PEOPLE explorers explorers tell of i queer rites by tribe more re A an n dent than mayas new orleans A tribe i fit of lof log worshipers hidden bidden awai away alii in the bogh landkof lands land of Gua guatemala proved to be one of the niort Ania amazing zing odthe many ex tra ordInary things discovered by the third official expedition af of the duiane Tu iane university department of middle american research i oliver la farge and douglas byers have returned to new orleans on the united fruit liner castillo Cast llla after spending four months wit with hithe i the descendants of the mayns Mayn gand and with highland whose late date back centuries before the mayas had ascended ascend cJ from froin the primeval la farge and biers are anre eth nolo fists at tulane an and ayta ar e know knowli its as ai authorities thor ties ldes on the early culture of asp aral america a abe they n made ia ae ti their f r to home i ni fit at alag 0 a nat native I 1 ve t town owl perched an on a rocky ledge leet feet above a 9 aisy river i sacred log in a cave i 1 1 across aaros the valley also in iii the cochu mountains alie lie s the I 1 hamlet basan Of Santa ta eulalla Iu Iti lalla home e log this holy piece p cd of f timber Is known as ath hend odthe of the villa village 6 and it I 1 is s kept carefully i oiled in a caye cave here once enery few months the high ecclesiastics of the alie village and la in country of 1 la in the inen of the cloth lle are fat and influential mid and numerous visit the cavern grout great ceremony they hold secret converse with tile log and d if A AWL 17 ahr hold secret converse with the log I 1 I 1 learn earn from it the events that are I 1 i to piss pasi during the ensuing months what the log tells these holy men Is law and 90 gospel tel in santa Eti lalia only a few important eyes can see th aliis log only a few important mouth en ann cnn n 01 talk LIC to it and onla afew fen lp lin faint ears can listen to no iio ftfe g gems Is 0 ol 01 11 wisdom that come from it I 1 spent edges 4 t 1 la fargo farge and kant deftly jh carly at nil I of their ti tanto ai e fai n ten a n go which Is in a manner of speaking quite a metropolis it housos naj na 1 I 1 1 alve alv families or a total population 0 I 1 i sa s1 slop beof cherock the r rock I 1 c mount alif m ahli wh li cen i aurles aso ago are arc precipitous and to get eel to the village is aft samall teat in itself hero here before the clar ch the an ari costers of tile tho baj f da rs wore were safe I 1 ly y housed and arid I 1 a able b 1 t toc 6 lefon d I 1 cill selves easily froni from marauders more ancient djian he mayas in the I 1 ila fargo farga and eyers Byers found that niest niost of i theila dailve i belonged to thereal real highland tribes which have been thereas tar far bad back asi as i can bellear nedi rather thlin than the mayas of lotttie ott the Tie big ruins and 1 the present ent mayas who live in yucatan however tho the maya may a group f reached the guatemala mountain dis als tracts about b au atie colury coW naury ury A D people I 1 whole 1101 1 0 I 1 I 1 the purely ccle titles duties Q adi each village are ln the hands of sia officials called rez adores who pray unholy In holy boly places place the general gondol the community they af tunics and striped shirts to say nothing of the sym symbolic bolle staves they earn cans inthey althey is they gravely 1 g go but about ali belr bols business i |