The Urraca Mesa is located in the northern part of New Mexico and has an ancient mythological and superstitious history. Indigenous tribes considered the Urraca Mesa to be the gateway to Hell! They erected various cat totems to guard the gates. The name “Urraca” is of Anasazi origin and means “magpie.” The magpie is a black bird that the Anasazi believed to be able to call your name, and if it did, you were doomed to an evil fate. The Navajo, descendants of the Anasazi, tracked the evil they were sensing to be coming from this mesa. Tonantzin is the mother goddess, seen as the Aztec’s “Mother Nature”. Xochitl(sō-chē) is the daughter of the flower prince god, Xochipilli(sō-chi-pi-li). William is the son of Huehuecoyotl(Way-way-cōh-yōh-tl), a shapeshifting trickster god. Jax is the son of Mictlāntēuctli, the skeleton god of the underworld.
Jax’s father, Mictlantecuhtli, plans to open the gates to the underworld, taking the human world along with it. Jax disagrees with his father’s agenda, believing in the preservation of mankind and hope in their capacity for goodness. Jax must travel to the gate in secret; if he’s discovered, a fate of suffering in the underworld at his father’s hand befalls him. He takes with him his newfound friends, William and Xochitl, two demigod teenagers, and they embark on a dangerous quest to save the world.
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