Word: tepozteco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manuel the Mexican, by Carlo Coccioli. Against a Mexican-Indian backdrop, a Passion play unfolds in which the 21-year-old Manuel symbolizes both Christ and the ancient Aztec God, Tepozteco-proof, perhaps, that God and Dios...
...Christ must compete with old idols. In a thousand villages the Aztec gods-whose shrines were toppled by the conquistadors -are remembered by the defeated. Ancient drums as well as bells sound from the church tops. In such a world. Manuel the Mexican came naturally by his belief that Tepozteco, lord of his race, was also Christ, and that Tonantzin, the Aztec Virgin, was also Christ's mother...
...meets his John the Baptist, a peddler named Guadalupe, a fanatical Cristero veteran of Mexico's religious wars. They wander among shrines and through deserts until the boy becomes convinced that it is his destiny to unite in his person Christ and the Lord Tepozteco. The Passion play of Tlaltenalco gives him his opportunity, and he enters the village on Palm Sunday, riding a Chevrolet...
...whom drink was a religion. Coccioli succeeds in the more difficult story of a man intoxicated by God. His complicated moral seems to be that sanctity is inviolable, that revelation is continuous, that time present is time past, and that, whether or not Christ is also the Lord Tepozteco, it is unarguable that God is also Dios...
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