Word: quetzalcoatl
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...time in two years, causing little damage. It twitched in Mexico, terrifying peons in Tehuantepec, who, instead of realizing that a mild earthquake now and then is really a good thing for mankind as it safeguards against catastrophic shocks, moved sullenly toward the hills muttering about the return of Quetzalcoatl, the bird-serpent, and other ancient gods. . . . Also, the earth twitched sharply last week in Greece, in Chile...
...Lawrence?Knopf ($3). Here lies Mexico, a sullen nation of black obsidian, brooding beneath a cruel sun. Christ hangs dead upon his cross and the name of Mary is a sterile myth in dusty shrines. By night, among the peons, the old gods stir, the Aztec gods. Quetzalcoatl, the bird-snake, is come again from "the cave which is called the Dark Eye, behind the sun," where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night at hushed circles where...
...Laurentian physico-mysticism, that preoccupation with endodermal emanations, the abdominal brain and sex pyschology, that moves many profoundly, puzzles others, and revolts the squeamish. The main characters are three: Kate Leslie, a sensitive Irish widow who has fulfilled her young womanhood and egotistically put it behind her; Don Ramon, Quetzalcoatl's triumphantly masculine semi-Indian high priest; and Don Cipriano, "a little fighting male" of European extraction, to whom Kate submits the new womanhood derived from Ramon's revelation...