Editing Chacmool (section)

==In contemporary culture==
The short story "Chac Mool" by Mexican novelist [[Carlos Fuentes]] is found in his book ''Los días enmascarados'' ({{Transliteration|es|The masked days}}), published in 1954.<ref>Carballo 1955, p. 4.</ref> A man named Filiberto buys a chacmool for his art collection,<ref name="Filer84p477">Filer 1984, p. 477</ref> and discovers that the stone is slowly becoming flesh.<ref>Carballo 1955, p. 16.</ref> The idol eventually becomes fully human,<ref name="Filer84p477"/> dominating his life, causing flooding and other disasters. Filiberto dies by drowning.<ref name="Filer84p477"/> His story is found in a diary describing the terrors brought on by the idol,<ref>Brushwood 1982, p. 19.</ref> and his plans to escape. According to the author, this short story was inspired by news reports from 1952 when the lending of a representation of the Maya rain deity to a Mexican exhibition in Europe had coincided with wet weather there.<ref name="Filer84p477"/> The short story was included in the 2008 anthology ''[[Sun, Stone, and Shadows]].''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-11-24 |title=Sun, Stone, and Shadows Audio Guide – Part Two |url=https://www.arts.gov/stories/other/sun-stone-and-shadows-audio-guide-part-two |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=www.arts.gov |language=en}}</ref>[[File:Henry Moore, Reclining Figure (6874668218).jpg|thumb|191x191px|Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, "Reclining Figure" by Henry Moore. This is just one of many examples of Henry Moore's monumental "Reclining Figure" works.]]
In [[Henry Moore]]'s early examples of monumental reclining figures, the artist relied on the cast of a chacmool sculpture he saw in Paris. Commenting on the major impact chacmool sculpted figures had on his early career, Moore stated that "Its stillness and alertness, a sense of readiness – and the whole presence of it, and the legs coming down like columns" were characteristics that inspired his creations.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist-moore-henry-artworks.htm|title=Henry Moore Most Important Art |work=The Art Story|access-date=2018-11-12|language=en-US}}</ref>