Tzinacan

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Priest / Prisoner

The last priest of the Pyramid of Qaholom, who is tortured and imprisoned in a dark hemispherical cell, where he spends his life trying to decipher a divine message hidden in the spots of a jaguar.

In The Circular Ruins (Jorge Luis Borges, 1944)

Possibly the same character

Same author, same name, in other works — cross-work identity is not asserted here, only suggested. Nartopo tracks character identity per work; these are separate pages that may or may not depict the same character.

Tzinacan in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1944)