May 15, 2005
Incantations by Mayan Women

I posted this week about the Times article on the work of Ambar Past and Bob Laughlin. Someone wrote a comment asking for information on ordering the new book.

Click "More" for her information on ordering. And take a look at their website:

Taller Lenateros

Thank you for writing about Incantations by Mayan Women. and sorry about the delay in getting back to you! WE have received an avalanche of orders and we are filling them as soon as we can. Meantime, check out our web page www.tallerlenateros.com

If you are interested in buying a copy of the first edition, we still have a few copies left. We are expecting the book to sell out soon.

The first edition (200 signed and numbered copies) costs $200 plus $40 shipping by DHL from Mexico (3 days)...or $25 by MexPost (one week).

The second edition costs $100 plus $40 shipping by DHL or $25 by MexPost...

You can pay us by check, Western Union, Paypal, or direct wire transfer through your bank.

Here's how to pay by check:Send your check

(made out to JUDITH ELLEN PAST )

to Gloria Chacon

210 Riverside Avenue, Apt. A
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Please indicate your telephone number and mailing address, (if you want DHL shipping it must be a street address and not a PO box, please).

HOW TO PAY BY WESTERN UNION: Send a money wire for the book plus shipping to PEDRO Alvarez Moshon

Flavio A. Paniagua #54

San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, 29230


How to pay by paypal: go to www.paypal.com and sign up for a paypal account (it is free, but you must have credit or debit card), or log in if you are already a member


-enter your total of books plus shipping and send to our account : tallerlenateros@yahoo.com.mx


-please send us an email to us at the same address that indicates

-your mailing address

-items purchased

-final amount of order

-confirmation/verifcation number of order

Direct deposit from your US bank account to our Mexican bank account:

-contact your bank and have the money order sent to our account at Banamex, S.A.

-Taller Lenateros S. De R.L. MI

Suc: 0386

Account: 055189-5

Bank Code for International Transfer: BNMXMXMM

Ref: 002130038605518950

-Banamex, S.A.

ADDRESS: Plaza 31 de Marzo Esq. Real de Guadalupe S/N

Col. Centro C.P. 29250

San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

Tel. 01 52 (967) 678 0540

-please send us an email to us at tallerlenateros@yahoo.com.mx that indicates


-your mailing address

-items purchased

-final amount of order

-confirmation/verifcation number of order

Please keep in touch. WE are certain you will be very excited by Incantations!!!

Ambar Past

PS: here are some other books produced by Taller Lenateros:

TALLER LENATERO BOOKS

-Carlos Jurado, El Arte de la aprehension del imagen y el unicornio (HOW TO MAKE pin hole cameras using unicorn horns) $40.00

-Ambar Past (anthologist and translator) Conjuros y ebriedades, cantos de mujeres mayas (Mayan women's magic spells) $150.00

-A. Past, Bon, tintes naturales, (a bilingual (TZOTZIL-SPANISH) manual of Mayan natural dyes) $10.00
-A. Past, The Woodlanders� Directory $40.00

-Robert M. Laughlin, Mayan Hearts $125.00

Palabras de Chan K'in (an ecological message from the patriarch of the Lacandon Maya) $25.00. (temporarily out of print)

Words of Chan K'in (the same book translated into English) $25.00 (temporarily out of print)

The Lady of Ur...a PRIZE WINNING poem/book in English about the women of Irak and how war has affected their lives over the past 5,000 years. $150 + $40 postage.

Ambar Past, Dedicatorias (bilingual Spanish/English) $20.00

La jicara literary art journal, edited by Ambar Past:

La jicara #6 $60.00 (out of print)

La jicara #7 $30.00
La Jicara #8 $80.00

The shipping prices vary on these, depending on how many we can get into a box. Some of them are very light and so it costs next to nothing to send them in with other books...Incantations is heavy...over 2 kilos!

Posted by Dave at May 15, 2005 03:13 PM