- [first lines]
- El Topo: [to his son] You are seven years old. You are a man. Bury your first toy and your mother's picture.
- La mujer: [after taking a drink from a river] It's bitter.
- El Topo: [while stirring the river water with a tree branch] Moses found water in the desert. The people tried to drink it, but were unable to because it was bitter. They named the water Marah.
- La mujer: [after taking another drink from the river] It has turned sweet!
- El Topo: I shall call you Marah, because you are bitter like water.
- Dwarf Maiden: We are deformed, from the continuous incest.
- Sign: Stud Poker.