When Carlos meets with Don Juan at his house is it in Mexico or Arizona ? There are multiple instances in the book where it is not made clear whether Don Juan lives in Arizona or in Sonora. The beginning of Journey to Ixtlan is a perfect example of this. And I am not asking about Juan’s upbringing. I know he grew up in Arizona and then moved to Mexico after his mother & father died. I am specifically asking whether Carlos met with Juan in Arizona or Sonora.
In short: where do the books take place.
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Both Arizona and Sonora. Concurrently, at times.
The Double gets around.
I bet we are supposed to think Don Juan is the Double, but really Carlos is.
Here's a map. The very good news is it all makes sense, and adds to there being no reason to doubt most of the storyline.
For instance, one of the households is at the end of the bus route coming down from Los Angeles into Mexico, which coincidentally is where the Yaqui wars ended.
Which explains why don Juan had a compound there, and claimed to be a Yaqui Indian, implying his sorcery was the same.
The park where Carlos stopped the world might be located slightly to the right of that compound on the western section of Mexico.
The old seers lived far to the right on the east coast, by the cenotes. And there's some Carlos lineage activity over there too.
The road leading east from don Juan's main compound, is likely where Carlos ate breakfast with Silvio and don Juan, very early on in the books. But wasn't mentioned in the storyline, because the Nagual's Blow pushed him into heightened awareness.
We battle that memory barrier daily in here!
The map is far from complete though.
I surmise that the mask maker, who's name is one of only 4 living back then, is on the road east to Zacatecas. With Vicente's home out there perhaps a bit further east where the 15 freeway leads down from Arizona. Or Arizona flows right into that.
Taisha's books take place where Vicente lives in part.
As for where Carlos met don Juan, I think Ruby Modesto and Joanie Baker had a tiny hand in that.
By bringing him to Morongo for his possible first stop in his search.
However, it seems likely to me that he was hanging out with the Luiseno before that.
They had 10,000 year old relics being dug up by the UC system.
Without permission.
They didn't like that much. But they got such a huge casino, the last time I visited their reservation was all paved over with expensive hotel structures, and an entire new city had risen up where I used to hunt for artifacts in empty desert.
Very depressing...
Just in case you ran into the Evil Tata Kachora of his followers, his story makes no sense once you see this map, and realize there are now around 10 eyewitnesses to the identify of don Juan.
Who spent most of his time down in Mexico where that map shows.
Tata is just a con man with aggressive groupes. They've tried to destroy this subreddit on many occasions. They like the "arizona origin" story so that Tata has less to remember. He's not very bright.