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The god/man who appears next on the scene is most difficult to decipher
but he appears to be bisexual: "Una sobrepelliz muy ondulada de ornamentos,
le cala sobre la espalda y los pectorales, marcc1ndole la gldtea y la vulva
verdosa" (1,418). He wears a tiger skin and bears symbols of the sea; in
his left hand are "mosaicos con cinco Zngulos" (1,418) which may be mand? l -
las. In the other hand is "un baculo de c6tedra episcopal, la serpiente
fc1lica empufýada por el padre" (1,418). He seems to offer the sum of spi-
ritual knowledge and is a life-giver: "orinaba sangre para reanimar los
huesos en el infierno
...
" (1,418). The bishop's crozier may signify the
spiritual heritage which is the property of the fathers, who must pass it
on to the sons. It is firmly grasped in a father's hand ("empuKada por el
padre"), so it may be reluctantly relinquished to the next generation.
Yet it can be wielded like a sword, against the ouroboros: "deshilachando la
camiseta, hendi4ndola, troc6ndola en un serpentfn de hosta donde una vaca
hundia una de sus patas creyendo ser anillada por la serpiente que penetra
en la imagen de la imagen
...
" (1,418). The image of the image is nothing-
ness; the weapon against it is spiritual knowledge brought by a man/god whom
we could identify as Fronesis' inner voice which leads him to full conscious-
ness. The hero was shown to have a virgin and a god for parents; here we
meet the god, whose androgyny implies completeness, not annihilation. His
presence makes possible a poetic vision, as soon as Fronesis' eyes are
opened:
Saltaban peces para morder las puntas de las estrellas
puestas casi al nivel del mar. El efecto era que el pez
se doraba en ese 6xtasis de suspensi(5n. Fronesis ya no
podfa vislumbrar la camiseta de doble cl'rculo destruida
por la serpiente marina. El centinela en la garita, al
encender otro cigarro, parecia hacer contacto con el pez
fuera del agua, estableciendo un momentäneo arco voltaico
donde la serpiente fälica mostraba en la sucesi6n de sus
collarines las pulgadas de penetraci6n en las v6rtebias
del ulular protopläsmico (1,419).