A Gods Shadow

Chon a member of the Native Mexican Wirrárika community tells the story of his cousin Faustino son of the shaman of an indigenous settlement in the mountains of Nayarit called La Mora In the 1980s Faustino had proclaimed himself to be god and the communitys spiritual leader which then had been accepted by his father and the inhabitants Together with an armed group he menaced and terrorized other neighboring villages When Chon witnessed his cousin kill various members of their own community he escaped La Mora and reported the incidents to the police