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follows a double standard.
Ramon, too, depends on Cipriano.
For instance, Ramon, as the soul, would never 'descend' so low
as to force people to join him in the Quetzalcoatl religion and
here, he depends entirely on Cipriano to do this for him. Thus,
Cipriano plays the general who coerces people to join the new
Gods while Ramon is seated on his 'throne'.
It may be said
that without Cipriano's help, Ramon would never be able to
become the new God because he, like Kate, hates common people.
How would he be the God of peons, indians and humble people if
he had not Cipriano as his 'prime minister'?
Ramon, as the bird of Quetzalcoatl, is a narcissist.
He
likes to be admired by those who follow him.
poses as a model for the head of Quetzalcoatl.
That is why he
There is also
his great connection with darkness.
In it he loses himself to
the outer world and enters into the world of the unknown
communion with his other self - the self that wants a new
discovery in the man of soul.
And this self of the darkness
may be his homosexual self which Ramon in the lighted world does
not want to recognize:
[Ramon] took off his clothes, and in the darkness
thrust his clenched fists upwards above his head,
in a terrible tension of stretched, upright prayer.
In his eyes was only darkness, and slowly the
darkness revolved in his brain, too, till he was
mindless . . . .
Then.suddenly, the clenched and quivering arms
dropped, the body relaxed into softness. The man
had reached his strength again...
Softly, delicately, taking great care not to
think, not to remember, not to disturb the
poisonous snakes of mental consciousness, he
picked up a thin, fine blanket, wrapped it round
him, and lay down in the piles of mats on the
floor. In an instant he was asleep... (p.186).
It could be said that what Ramon really wants is to be in love
with himself.
Here, in the darkness, he needs nobody, only