Maya Gods and Monsters by Carol Karasik

Author:Carol Karasik
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Thrums Books
Published: 2016-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

He’s always on the verge of laughing himself silly. Then he climbs out of the turtle shell on his back, which he beats like a drum when he’s dancing.

TEZCATLIPOCA

LORD of

the SMOKING MIRROR

The noiselessness is sudden, a heavy door closing on the storm. Few who enter that silent land return. There is no trace of human life in the valleys or on the barren hills. There is no draft, no murmur, no sound of footsteps, no chink of stone, no breath.

This stillness is the birthplace of fanged toads, feathered serpents, lizards with flowering tongues. They survive as naguales, animal spirits, of the gods of rain and night.

A pool the size of the moon is said to form in the sand at the time of the full moon, and from its depths rises a plume of smoke dim as obsidian. The smoke, people say, is the essence of Tezcatlipoca, Lord of the Smoking Mirror, god of magic and invisibility.

In the plume of smoke, wanderers see their souls in the shapes of birds, red ants, or dogs. Immediately they take flight or crawl beneath the ocotillo cactuses. Some turn into needles waiting for water. Others turn into lightning stones or jagged flints. Others change into black shadows, unable to escape, unable to will themselves awake, locked like their god on the dark side of the mirror. This is the land of loss where everything takes its bleakest form, forged in smoke, hammered in silence.

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