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““ ”Chac Mool”Chac Mool Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes



Carlos Fuentes Mexico,

1928-,Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama City but his

,parents were Mexican and he later became a Mexican.citizen

, ,Fuentes's father Rafael Fuentes Boettiger loved books and.movies He was a career diplomat and travelled all over the.world

.Fuentes's upbringing was privileged He received a cosmopolitan.education in private schools At the age of 16 Fuentes returned

, .to Mexico where he attended the prestigious Colegio de México Fuentes entered the School of Law at the National University of, . . .Mexico receiving his LL B in 1948 He also studied economics at

.Institut des Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva

, ,Fuentes's first collection of short stories Los días emmascarados was

. ( , )published in 1954 La región más transparente 1958 Where the Air Is Clear.was Fuentes's first novel Fuentes maintains a realistic stance of power and politics in Latin– ,America magical elements myths of the past and wide range of cultural

.references are combined with social critique Fuentes also uses experimental techniques familiar from the nouveau roman and postmodern

.fiction In later novels Fuentes has dealt the question of Mexican

.identity and its relationship to other cultures



’ , ,He s novelist short story writer

, , ,playwright screenwriter critic and.essayist

And a very snappy

.dresser



chac mool



The chacmool is a sculptural figure seated on the ground with its upper

,back raised the head is turned to a,near right angle the legs are drawn

,up to the buttocks elbows rest on the, ,ground and its hands hold a vessel disk or plate on the stomach where

offerings may have been placed or.human sacrifices carried out

Chacmools are found in Central Mexico

and Yucatán with the greatest number concentrated at the archaeological, ,sites of Tula Hidalgo and Chichén

.Itzá A chacmool excavated from the Aztec Templo Mayor in Mexico City in

the early 1980s was found fully. ,polychromed At Tula and Chichén Itzá

the chacmool was usually placed in the antechamber of a temple presumably to.receive offerings or for sacrifice



Chac vs. Chac Mool,The Mayan god of fertility and agriculture the one who sends. ,thunder and rain Later he appears as one of the Bacabs a group of

,four protective deities where Chac is the personification of the. ( ).east The center of his cult was in Chichen Itzan Yucatan He is

.the Tlaloc of the Aztec and the rain god Cocijo of the Zapotec Chac, -is portrayed with two curling fangs a long turned up nose and tears

.streaming from his wide eyes His hair was made up of a tangle of

.knots.Chac was beneficent and a friend of man He taught them how to grow

.vegetables and was the protector of their cornfields The Maya appealed to him for rain by means of particular ceremonies by which

the men would settle outside the village and adhere to strict.observance of fasting and sexual abstinence The animal associated

,with Chac is the frog because it signals the coming of rain by its.croaking

(" "), ("He is also known as Ah Hoya he who urinates Ah Tzenul he who"), (" ").gives food to others and Hopop Caan he who lights up the sky





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Chac Mool by C a r l o s F u en te s Translated by Jonah Katz Not to

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Filiberto and his psychological state/the fantastic magic realism

the relation between ancient and contemporaryMexico

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