3er ensayo. INGLES . Leyenda

Universidad Alfonso Reyes.

División Preparatoria.

Leyenda

3er Ensayo.

Ruth Alondra Sánchez Soto.

L-10676

Maestro: José López Navarrete

Ingles 3.

Guadalupe, N.L, 19 de julio, 2012

Leyenda De La Llorona

The Conquest and more or less in the mid-sixteenth century, residents of Mexico City were collected at home with the curfew, warned by the bells of the first Cathedral, at midnight and especially when the moon was, awoke startled to hear on the street, sad moans prolongadisimos launched by a woman who grieved, no doubt, deep sorrow tremendous moral or physical pain.

The first night, the neighbors were resigned to cross himself for fear that caused them those dismal moans, which they say petenecían a bore of the other world, but they were so many repeated and continued for so long that some daring wanted to make sure their own eyes what it was, and first since the door ajar, windows or balconies, and then daring to take to the streets, they were able to see that, in the silence of the dark nights or in those in which the pale light the moon was falling like a mantle flowing threw acute and agonizing groans.

Women wore a white suit and a thick veil covered her face. With slow and silent steps walked many streets of the city, taking different streets every night, but always passed through the Plaza Mayor (now known as the Zocalo of Capital), where he stopped and her knees, was the last harrowing and languidísimo I regret towards the East, then continuing with step slow and deliberate towards the same direction and to reach the lake, which at that time penetrated into some districts, like a shadow vanished in its waters.

"The late hour of the night, - says Dr. José María Moroccan-silence and solitude of the streets and squares, dress, air, the slow gait of that mysterious woman and, above all, penetrating, sharp and prolonged his cry, which was always falling on the ground on his knees, was set to terrorize all who saw and heard, and not a few of the brave and valiant conquerors, were in the presence of that woman, silent, pale and cold, as marble. Most courageous hardly dared to follow her long-distance, using the moonlight, without achieving anything but getting to the lake to see it disappear, as if submerged in the water, and not being able to find out more about it, and ignoring who he was, where he came from and where he was given the name La Llorona. "

La Llorona is perhaps one of the oldest legends and known in Mexico and spread to the rest of Latin America since then has as many versions as you can imagine: some argue it was the ancient Aztec goddess Cihuacoatl, another version is that it may have been the famous Malinche or Dona Marina, of whom more later, there are others, however, place it as a woman of great beauty that existed during the era of colonial Mexico.

But who is this mysterious and terrifying at the same time a woman? Although the origin varies broadly La Llorona is the lost soul of a beautiful woman dressed in white all night wandering the streets or the river banks, bemoaning the loss of her children, her beauty has a great attraction in all men, groaning and moaning terrorize anyone who listens.

It is quite possible that this legend has had its origin in ancient Aztec culture, which believed in Cihuateteo, which were nothing more than the spirits of the dead women during labor and who were honored for having lost the battle represented childbirth; the ancient inhabitants of Mexico Tenochtitlan believed they could find these spirits crying for their children in the crossroads. It is very common for Cihuateteo are deeply related to the goddess Cihuacoatl (whom we have already mentioned) who, in Aztec mythology, was the first woman to give birth and thus became the patron goddess of childbirth and of women dying in childbirth.

Perhaps this legend was later adopted by the Spanish during the colonial period and was associated with La Malinche, or Doña Marina, who was the official translator of the Spanish when they arrived in Mexico Tenochtitlan. Like Malinche had a son with Hernán Cortés is considered, among other things, the first mother in Mexico.