The Candle

The Candle · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

On the cover of The Last Altar, the motif is identified as “The Candle.” Every Day of the Dead, the village remembers people who died here but survived elsewhere.

The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.