Me paralizaban los dos ojillos, casi bizcos muy pegados a la nariz triangular. ”Allí estaba Chac Mool, erguido, sonriente, ocre, con su barriga encarnada. Things got strange: unexplained yells/lamentations, at night, heard,…flooding in the cellar where the statue lies…and after several days: the statue taking a life of its own: from stone texture to flesh …Chac Mool is alive now.
The diary tells the narrator that the secretary had bought an Aztec statue called Chac Mool (he had this hobby of collecting them) which he took to his old house. He’d been expelled from his job as secretary, for the reasons of theft and madness (namely an offer to make it rain in the desert). The diary is the major source for the reconstruction of the story: what really happened to Filiberto. The narrator is a friend of 40 year old Filiberto, a man found dead, drowned in Acapulco.įiliberto had been lodged in the Müller’s inn, a cheap one…and his remaining items consist of 200 pesos, a newspaper, lottery tickets and a diary. It made me recall of Poe and Meyrink's The Golem Įnough magic in it and some suspense till the very end of this dark short story. Their symbolism placed them on the frontier between the physical and supernatural realms, as intermediaries with the gods." From the Wiki "Aztec chacmools bore water imagery and were associated with Tlaloc, the rain god. Filiberto had been lodged in the Müller’s inn, a cheap The narrator is a friend of 40 year old Filiberto, a man found dead, drowned in Acapulco. Their symbolism placed them on the frontier between the physical and supernatural realms, as intermediaries with the gods." From the Wiki It made me recall of Poe and Meyrink's The Golem enough magic in it and some suspense till the very end of this dark short story.
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