Rulfo also associates Comala with indigenous Mexican religious traditions, like the Aztec underworld of Mictlán. Further complicating Comala’s significance, one character in the novel even calls Comala her personal heaven.
After all, it soon becomes clear that the town’s residents are waiting for spiritual redemption through others’ prayers. It’s also possible that Comala represents not hell but purgatory, which is filled with purifying fire according to Catholicism.
In placing Comala “at the very mouth of hell” and revealing that Pedro Páramo died years ago, Rulfo associates Juan’s journey into Comala with the archetypal story of a hero’s descent into with the underworld-like, for instance, the hero Odysseus’s journey into the underworld in the Odyssey, or Dante’s journey through hell in Inferno.
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