Victor Alberto Bueno Marichal: The shallow black pools of the Jaguar God’s temple

viernes, 2 de mayo de 2025

The shallow black pools of the Jaguar God’s temple

The shallow black pools of the Jaguar God’s temple

Those who search the sky
for signs of what is to come
Explanations for what happens to them
with less faith than conviction

Those who draw flat figures
uniting with imaginary lines
the distant stars
in age and distance

Those who tally balances
of wings and claws, membranes, elytra and feathers
earthpeckers, songbirds, birds of prey, raptors and scavengers
light and shadow, rain and fire, wind and sand
Smoke, breeze and ash
dust, mist, clouds, lightning and fire stones

Those who know that we only perceive
in a four-dimensional dream
the shadows projected
when the feathered serpent
with jaguar teeth
flies over the true earth
The home of Chaculclán

Those who inherit
the blessings of the banners
that proclaim the God
waving in the wind
on the mother mountain
the truth of its uniqueness and infinity
and that learned the symbol of the dragon
in ancient watercolors

Those who suffer vertigo
from the abysses above
and navigate undaunted
the desperate reality
from the galaxies of light bulbs
of the nocturnal city

We all suffer of the same illness
We try to scratch the inscrutable reality
We all want to exorcise, to domesticate
to cage in symbols what overwhelms
our earthly and inconsequential everyday life

But we only intuit from afar the work of two hierarchs
One wept in amazement at the size of the mountains
beyond the desert at the end of the world
and discovered the hollow mother of the dragon

The other analyzed the sky
which he saw reflected
during a hummingbird cycle
in the shallow black ponds
squared with water lilies
that surrounded the greatest pyramidal temple
of the lineage that Chaculclán started

And painted the currents and tides of the sky
by day and by night
in codices stained with peyote

He also predicted the return of his clan’s founder
when three herons cross them diagonally
and an eagle drops a fish on an iguana
in some year of the jaguar.

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