The Plumed Serpent: (Quetzalcoatl)The novel has a contemporary setting during the period of the Mexican Revolution. It opens with a group of tourists visiting a bullfight in Mexico City. One of them, Kate Leslie, departs in disgust and encounters Don Cipriano, a Mexican general. Later she meets his friend, intellectual land-owner Don Ramon, and travels to Sayula, a small town set on a lake. Ramon and Cipriano are leading a revival of a pre-Christian religion and Kate becomes drawn into their cult. |
Contents
Cipriano | 1 |
Fourth Hymn and | 34 |
Auto | 73 |
The Attack | 110 |
Marriage by Quetzalcoatl | 145 |
The Opening of the Church | 198 |
The Living Huitzilopochtli | 237 |
Huitzilopochtlis Night | 276 |
Malintzi | 300 |
Teresa | 316 |
Kate is | 354 |
Here | 376 |
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