![]() The indio Amarillo could be the Chac Mool in his human body because Filiberto says that it is getting more human characteristics every time. How do you interpret the description of the “indio amarillo” in the final paragraph? What does it mean?.His personality is strong, he imposes, has authority but can be nice when he wants. The Chac Mool changed during the story, at the beginning it was a statue, natural dimensions, a common rock, but also elegant, with some tomato sauce on it, but then it become a he, and maybe at the end the Chac Mool is El indio Amarillo. What is he like physically? What is his personality like? How the Chac Mool wasn´t ”complete”, he tried to fix it with artificial parts, this could mean that when Spanish people discovered America and found American people, they sow them as something “incomplete”, and they “completed” them with their own culture and parts. How can we interpret Fuentes’ re-telling of Le Plongeon’s act?.Who was the Le Plongeon referred to on pg 5?.But Chac Mool needed to eat and had the main character as his prisoner, and in internet I didn´t find anything like this. In Fuente´s story Chac Mool needs water to be alive and the principal character had a dead related with water, and Chac Mool was related to Tlaloc, so there is a coincidence. How does what you find coincide and not coincide with the descriptions given in Fuentes’ story?. ![]() What is a Chac Mool? (internet investigation)Ĭhac Mool is a kind of statue from the Mesoamerican cultures, it is related with water and Tlaloc.He could represent the Indian people in the conquer. I´m not sure about the meaning of the question, but if “class” is about social or economic, Filiberto was from a high class, or at least his parents. Who is Filiberto? What does he do? What class is he from? What might he represent?įiliberto is the man who bought the Chac Mool, he used to collect old stuff from Mexican culture, and he found a statue of the Chac Mool, he bought, he came crazy and then he died.The story is narrated first in second person and then in first person. Who narrates the story/How is the story narrated?Īt the beginning and at the end is Filiberto´s friend, then he reads Filiberto´s diary and the one who is telling his story is Filiberto.The Chac Mool altars also served for human sacrifices: some had cuauhxicallis, or special recipients for the blood of sacrificial victims, while others had special téhcatl altars where humans were ritualistically sacrificed. These offering could consist of anything from foodstuffs like tamales or tortillas to colorful feathers, tobacco or flowers. The purpose of the Chac Mools was generally as a place for sacrificial offerings for the gods. It is never found in the back, where something revered as a deity would be expected to rest. ![]() When located in temples, the Chac Mool is nearly always positioned between the spaces associated with the priests and that associated with the people. ![]() The statues had a utilitarian purpose and were not, in themselves, worshiped: this is known because of their relative positions within the temples. The statues - some of which are quite elaborate - obviously had an important religious and ceremonial uses for the different cultures that created them.
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