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La escritura del Dios, El Aleph J. L. Borges
The Writing of the God is a story by the argentinian writer J. L. Borges. In it, an Aztec priest (embodying prehispanic cultures as a whole) is incarcerated with a jaguar by the Conquistadors.
Many years pass, and trying to remember a magic sentence given by the god Qaholom, he recalls all his knowledge, memorises the patterns on the jaguar's fur trying to find a clue in it. And yet, once he remembers the sentence, he has no motive to escape, for he has trascended his own humanity by using it, ceased to be himself.
This tale is in some ways à metafoor d'or the "imprisonment" of prehispanic cultures and traditions by the spanish Conquistadors
La escritura del Dios, El Aleph J. L. Borges
The Writing of the God is a story by the argentinian writer J. L. Borges. In it, an Aztec priest (embodying prehispanic cultures as a whole) is incarcerated with a jaguar by the Conquistadors.
Many years pass, and trying to remember a magic sentence given by the god Qaholom, he recalls all his knowledge, memorises the patterns on the jaguar's fur trying to find a clue in it. And yet, once he remembers the sentence, he has no motive to escape, for he has trascended his own humanity by using it, ceased to be himself.
This tale is in some ways à metafoor d'or the "imprisonment" of prehispanic cultures and traditions by the spanish Conquistadors