Octavio Paz: the creed, the blasphemy, the executioner

Abstract

With the stigma of Saint Augustine, Omar Jayyâm and the Marquis de Sade we have been thrown into this great representation that is the world. Original sin, lynching, what they will say and collective suicides have characterized our Adamic journey. Educated under the bonfire of fidelity and flirtation with blasphemy, sacrilege and heresy. Without having lived or witnessed it, we are very aware of the stealth steps of the eclipse of the Holy Inquisition that has watched over well-being and rectitude for centuries, driving away evils such as promiscuity or just building a bridge towards the other: in colloquial Spanish " open up, split”; and in a Malinche language: translate.