The Hispanic Legend of La Llorona and its origins

The legends are part of the mystical culture of each region, add dyes and variations of the country or city where they occur.Few are those that create an important transcendence in different countries and even continents, however it is possible that The Legend of La Llorona is one of the best known throughout Hispanoamerica , breaking the limitations of time and space,

The origins of “La Llorona ”

Many historians claim that the legend of the llorona arises from pre-Hispanic times, before the Spanish conquest, in present-day Mexico City, the tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin could have heard for the first time the cry of la llorona warning of the fall of Tenochtitlan , this being a warning from the goddess Coatlicue, ruler of life and death according to Mexican mythology.At that time the llorona would be known with the name re de Cihuacoatl ( snake woman ) who came from last cries shouting phrases like: “My little children, the time has come.My little children, where will I take you?”

This has been documented thanks to Fray Bernardino de Sahagun , who in addition to recounting various events of the conquest made notes of the alleged omens thanks to some indigenous informants.

Omen becomes Legend

Subsequently, the myth gained strength in the colonial era, Nueva Espana had adopted a legend that dictated that since eleven o'clock night , when the touch was given curfew and the streets were deserted , the plaintive and crying tears of a woman who said “ Oh my! s children! ”in unison with the wind making itself heard all over the place and causing chills to the bravest.Whoever came to look out discovered the silhouette of a woman in white that floated by cobbled streets, it is said that this woman came to the Plaza Mayor of the city and then fade away in front of the first rays of dawn, on the shores of Lake Texcoco.

The Hispanic Legend of La Llorona and its origins

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As time passed, the theory of the origin of the Llorona undergoes a metamorphosis , the story of an woman indigenous begins to emerge falls in love with loss of a Spanish gentleman and although this fact was frowned upon at the time, the couple conceives three children .She was eager to formalize her relationship, however that Spanish gentleman dodged her demands, leaving aside the love she felt for her and dominated by the status of her reputation before society, decides to marry a Spanish aristocrat. Humiliated in response to this fact, the indigenous woman goes crazy and murders her three children in a river to later commit suicide .The legend dictates that at the gates of the Heaven is asked where her children were and when she answered that she did not know she is condemned to look for them for all eternity .

There is some information in that legend that explains why their presence causes great fear , this is because in the eagerness to be accepted in heaven, the crybaby assassins firstborn from 1 to 5 years of age to bring them to the Lord like their children.Even the fact has been added in the popular myth that the farther you hear their wailing, the closer they are to you and vice versa.

Some other versions of this legend indicate that the indigenous woman represents the figure of the well-known Malinche , who betrayed her entire race for falling in love with Hernan Cortes during the conqui sta de los espanoles, being condemned to pay for such betrayal.

Cultural variations of the Legend of La Llorona

This story has been adapted throughout Latin America, varying only in some aspects, such as the appearance of this spectral woman or what her spirit does every night.An example is the one that has been formed in Colombia who claims that the weeping woman is a woman with skeletal face , red eyes and messy hair, she carries in her arms a dead child who is said to be a murderer and is sentenced to live lamenting this fact, it is also known as “La Maria Pardo”.

The Hispanic Legend of La Llorona and its origins

In Guatemala , it is said that the weeping woman is a woman who murdered her illegitimate child of an infidelity relationship to, in this way, hide their crime, so they are doomed to punish unfaithful husbands by killing or torturing them with their plaintive crying.

Some anthropologists who have decided to study the hidden message behind this story, indicate that this popular legend has been deformed with the purpose of "teach" mothers who should not give in to their own pleasures, this is logically a product of the patriarchal culture that is lived in the Hispanic regions.

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