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'The Amethyst Ring' by Scott O'Dell is the third novel in the historical fiction trilogy started by 'The Captive' and 'Feathered Serpent'.

Plot summary



Julin Estaban, who is impersonating the Mayan god Kukulcn, fights and escapes from a powerful gold hungry conquistador, Hernn Corts. Kukulcn's followers captured Rodrigo Perdoza, a bishop carrying a message to Corts to detain Julin. Julin wants to be a priest and asks the bishop many times to make him one, but in the end he lets the Mayan priest sacrifice him, and Julin takes the bishop's amethyst ring. Corts attacks and captures Kukulcn's city, the City of the Seven Serpents, but Julin escapes to a friendly large village and helps them harvest and trade pearls. He then goes to a smaller trading town and partners with Tzom Zambac and they have a successful feathered cloak business. Fearing betrayal from Tzom, he leaves and eventually finds Francisco Pizarro, a conquistador who is taking a band of Spaniards to get gold from the Inca. They capture the Incan king Atahualpa, who has a room filled with gold to pay his ransom. The Spaniards try and kill him anyway. Julin leaves the group because of his disagreements with the trial. He searches for Chima, a daughter of Atahualpa, whom he has fallen in love with. He finds her and she rejects him because he is a Spaniard. Julin then uses all of his gold to sail back to Seville. There he meets Cant the Dwarf, who is now very wealthy from gold. Cant gives Julin a lot of gold, but he joins the Brothers of the Poor and gives it all to them.

Category:Historical novels

Category:1983 novels

Category:Houghton Mifflin books


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