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| | WashingtonPost.com: A New Time for Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Coursing through Mexico are serpentine rivers, mere threads of fertility in the midst of deserts, opulent tropical undulations pouring slow and wide into the sea Over the flowing waters of the Papaloapan, river of butterflies, over the still waters of Lake Patzcuaro, furrowed by dragonflies, flutters the goddess Itzpapalotl, a star in the Aztec pantheon. |
 | | The Usumacinta River flows on, inseparable from the forest it waters, equally inseparable from the clouds that gather over both jungle and river, as if they, too, were drawn along by the current. |
 | | We know that all three--sky, river, and jungle--hide and protect the civilizations that slumber beneath them, pretending to be dead, giving signs of life only in the mystery of the figures drawn on the rocks beside the Planchon River and in the ghostly processions of the frescoes at Bonampak. |
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