MAYAN PHOENIX

CREATED BY: SNAKEBITE CORTEZ & JOSHUA ORTEGA

MASTER MASK BY: DIGGER T. MESCH

MASK BY: DINO J. BORTOLI

STORY BY: JOSHUA ORTEGA

PICS BY: RJ LAMENDOLA

Mayan Phoenix

The year is 2012. The end of the Mayan calendar.

Projections from the end of the world abound, much like the turn of the millenium in 1999…or 999.

999 held signifigance to her.

It was the year she was first reborn as the Phoenix, after all. From ancient Mayan civilization to the so-called "future," she has been present, or at least, was a presence.

Her name is not relevant, as she took many forms, not all of them birdlike or fiery. Sometimes, she was as cold as a lioness, other times, as warm as a summer breeze–with a swarm of hornets blowing upon it, of course.

She was a force to be reckoned with, a power unlike any other.

Her very presence, her continual rebirth, signalled times of change, upheaveal, and renewal.

1206 AD, 1492 AD, 1776 AD, 1939 AD, and more, she was there, manifest upon this earthly plane.

But something changed in 2012: She became the harbinger of the end of the world. Not the end of the world as in armageddon or fire and brimstone, but rather, the end of the world as we know it.

Everything changed that year, from the environment to civilization to basic human relationships…and suprisingly for some, things did not change for the worse.

In many ways, despite the prophecies of doom, the world became a better place.

And for the first time since her creation, the Phoenix smiled.