“Ashes and diamonds, passion” is a spell of the Malvinas descent of 1966 that returns to ash whoever was raised from ash. Its words: “Parado aquí escucho los colores… cenizas y diamantes, pasión” (“Standing here I hear the colors… ashes and diamonds, passion”).
| Type | Spell |
| Learned by | Rómulo Ezzayeche |
| Spanish entry | «Cenizas y diamantes, pasión» |
Origin
Rómulo Ezzayeche learned it in a dream, from a commissioner who was also a sorcerer, one of the men of the Triple A (the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance), in an office dated 1975 that belonged to the sorcerer López Rega. The price was a list: the names of his companions. He woke knowing something new, and a little further from the waking world.
Effect
Spoken aloud, it acts only on beings awakened from their cenizas esenciales (“essential ashes”) by black magic — mummies, the resurrected, immortals rebuilt from their own burned matter. Against them it is a sentence; against anything else, living or common, it does nothing.
Name
The name comes from Ashes and Diamonds, Jerzy Andrzejewski’s novel filmed by Andrzej Wajda. Because of that Polish echo, the formula was for a time attributed to the expedition’s geologist, Irene Kowalski; but the dream was Ezzayeche’s. A joke at the time held that the words sounded like a Racing song.