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Legend of La Llorona – Child Killing, Man Eating Snake Women – Much Venerated in Texcoco
“In the legend reality transitions into fiction, stories are generally transmitted orally from generation to generation and in the process are modified."
In the case of the Legend of La Llorona, its roots reach back to the Pre-Hispanic Era. The personage is associated with the goddess Cihuacoatl or Qyilaztli, Snake Woman, who according to Duran being the principal god of the Xochimilcas, was much venerated in Mexico and Texcoco.
The goddess Cihuacoatl was of stone, had a very big open mouth with wide-spaced teeth; had a head of hair big and long, and an all white woman’s costume of skirt, shirt and blanket. {Codex Duran}"
(Translated from the booklet “Day of the Dead in Chapingo”, published by the National Agricultural Museum, Autonomous University of Chapingo.)
In one alternate version of the legend, she is La Malinche, who betrayed her people by cooperating with Cortez in the conquest. In another, she kills her children out of spite after seeing her husband with another woman, and then searches for them every night. This last version is usually told to small children to scare them to not leave the house after dark.
Purchased this book (and two others) in the gift shop in the Rivera Chapel in the University Rectory. My guide told the employee (in Spanish) "This man is rich - he will buy anything." The guide was actually looking for one of the books - he borrowed and copied it. Have not seen these books anywhere else.
On returning to LA "discovered" that I could "suddenly" read Spanish - all three books were useful.
Legend of La Llorona – Child Killing, Man Eating Snake Women – Much Venerated in Texcoco
“In the legend reality transitions into fiction, stories are generally transmitted orally from generation to generation and in the process are modified."
In the case of the Legend of La Llorona, its roots reach back to the Pre-Hispanic Era. The personage is associated with the goddess Cihuacoatl or Qyilaztli, Snake Woman, who according to Duran being the principal god of the Xochimilcas, was much venerated in Mexico and Texcoco.
The goddess Cihuacoatl was of stone, had a very big open mouth with wide-spaced teeth; had a head of hair big and long, and an all white woman’s costume of skirt, shirt and blanket. {Codex Duran}"
(Translated from the booklet “Day of the Dead in Chapingo”, published by the National Agricultural Museum, Autonomous University of Chapingo.)
In one alternate version of the legend, she is La Malinche, who betrayed her people by cooperating with Cortez in the conquest. In another, she kills her children out of spite after seeing her husband with another woman, and then searches for them every night. This last version is usually told to small children to scare them to not leave the house after dark.
Purchased this book (and two others) in the gift shop in the Rivera Chapel in the University Rectory. My guide told the employee (in Spanish) "This man is rich - he will buy anything." The guide was actually looking for one of the books - he borrowed and copied it. Have not seen these books anywhere else.
On returning to LA "discovered" that I could "suddenly" read Spanish - all three books were useful.