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| It's kinda fuzzy, but I think this will do the trick. |
There's really not a whole lot to say here, so I'll hit the high points.
Link and Tatl arrive in a swamp that is full of poisonous water. They are guided by a monkey through the perilous swamp full of spinning turtles covered with spikes (kinda like something from another Nintendo game full of mushrooms and plumbers) where they find a witch. This witch, like many of the other denizens of Termina, is the alter ego of a witch he met in Hyrule. A witch who actually tried to kill him. However, in this world she is injured and apparently just owns a boat rental shop. She's been injured by the Skull Kid and asks for Link to bring her medicine. Given that she is the lesser of two evils, Link visits the potion shop which happens to be owned by her sister. I find this to be an amusing play on the fact that they are bosses (as in the last jerk in a dungeon or temple) in Ocarina of Time and they are bosses (as in the overseeing role of a business) in Majora's Mask.
After helping the witch and getting a boat, Link arrives at the palace of the tree people (refer to deku palace on the blurry map. It's the southernmost label) They won't let Link in because he is human. Link then uses his mask to allow him to transform into his tree person form. Despite being the only tree in the world to have a green sock cap and blonde hair, the guards let him in none the wiser. Link sees another monkey in a cage and a rather pissed off king on a throne. I'll discuss the king's anger in greater detail in a later post, but it's basically because he thinks the monkey kidnapped his daughter. After doing some Metal Gear Solid-esque sneaking around, Link gets to the monkey and finds out the tree princess was captured in the temple on top of the mountain/volcano looking thing that is spewing poison. The monkey teaches Link a song of awakening.
Some stuff happens that is of no great importance and then Link winds up at the first temple in this game. It's just some standard dungeon crawling. You kill some monsters, solve puzzles, get a bow and some arrows at some point, and all the while you do this the background music comprises of a war whoop in the distance. At the end of the temple, you find out who's been making this noise.
I said all this up to now to get to this part. A giant tribal fellow in war paint and a mask drops from the ceiling with a giant shield and a sword about three or four times bigger than you are. His name is Odolwa, the masked jungle warrior. I'm just going to say that it's important to note all the bosses for each dungeon wear masks. He begins to chant in Mayan:
"K'iinam took ool! K'iinam took ool!"
"Tookik taali! Tookik taal!"
"A'alik beora! A'alik beora!"
this translates to:
"Head will ache and burn. Head will ache and burn."
"Come burn. Come burn."
"Dance now. Dance now."
Perhaps this doesn't make a great deal of sense. So here's his chant.
Still doesn't make sense? Well what do you expect from a guy whose name makes you flip your tongue upside-down?
He hops around, does some crazy tribal dances that summon tarantulas from the ceiling, and does a spinny move with his sword. I know he's Mayan, and I know this game is apocalypse themed, but I think these two factors are unrelated. Link has the benefit of arrows now, so he peppers this guy with arrows and then stabs him when he falls to his knees. It's a relatively simple fight, but when he dies he leaves behind just his mask.
When Link picks up the mask he is sent to strange place with a waterfall obscuring a large creature. An exchange occurs between Tatl (probably because Link is mute) and the giant regarding a potential plan to stop the end of the world. It is then made clear that this giant is something of a guardian and that there are three others in each area of the world. He teaches Link the Oath to Order, which is a song of summoning for this large giant. Having a large giant on your side and all his bros could help you hold up the moon or something.
Link saves the tree princess (don't get attached. that's the only princess who gets saved in the entire game). A rather comical portion of this is that in order to carry her to the palace, Link places her in the small bottle he got from the witches. They return to the king's palace to find the monkey about to be lowered into a boiling pot. In response the princess beats up the king for his rash actions after Link pulls her out of the bottle.
Oh and also by killing Odolwa, the poison in the swamp clears out and everybody is happy. Except for the fact the moon is just hours away from falling again. Link plays the Song of Time, and returns to the first day.
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