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Jorge Ortega
This article revisits Octavio Paz's monumental poem, Piedra de sol, published in Mexico midway through the past century. Perhaps the most inescapable of the author's poems, in its little more than five decades of its existence, Piedra de sol has inspired a large number of readings and interpretations, most of which have tested to the diversity of the registers, whether visible or veiled, that it contains and which confirm Paz's ecumenical leanings. The paragraphs that follow set aside said trajectories in order to focus attention on the mythical filtrations exhumed from the realm of the pre-Hispanic and suffused throughout the poem, beginning with its title, a derivation of the name for the colossal stone-sculpted almanac of the ancient Mexica. This approach aims to probe into the textual aspects that may bestow upon Piedra de sol certain deep-rooted foundations in the indigenous imaginary to which it refers, including the full flow of prodigies and cosmic atonements that take place in the poem by means of analogous constructs. The personal drama of Piedra de sol is a reminiscence of a mythological drama, two horizons made comparable thanks to the idealizing impulse of the poetic genre
