The Urban Legend Of The Llorona

The Huichol Indians are an indigenous group that lives “in the Sierra Madre Mountains of northwestern Mexico” (Woolcott). The Huichol religion is an animistic religion. According to Dr. Pamela Lindell, animistic religions are “religions that believe that all of nature – humans, animals, plants, rocks, the ocean, etc. - is animated by spirits and souls” (“Professor’s Notes 2” 3). To better understand the Huichol Indians and their religion, this paper examines Huichol myth, symbolism, rituals, religious specialists, and deities from various anthropological perspectives.

El chupacabra is a legendary creature that has been running around Mexico, and various parts of Centralcentral America after its initial sitting in March 1995 in Puerto Rico when a farmer found his 150 livestock animals were dead bloodsuck. But the chupacabra also dates back in Mayan culture stories reveal a creature with a bat or lizard like face two arms and has the ability to turn into a statue. It even had a sharp snout that lends itself as a service that could suck blood from animals. And findings have been found identify terms like “goat sucker” in Mayan literature

Moved from their land, forced into a new religion and way of thinking the natives were also mostly extinguished by European microbes. Not everyone was passive however and one of these people was Popay, being the leader various groups was very well known for his successful revolts in pueblo communities across New Mexico, keeping Spaniards for 12 years. The book also talks about the communities built by the natives and how they were mostly eradicated by disease. The story of Apolonaria Lorenzana is also talked about, living through the early days of Spanish missions to the closing of the American frontier and her importance as “La Beata” in San Diego missions. The identity crisis of those with Spanish ancestry and of Mexican decent by in new American soil is also mentioned. The legacy left by the Seguin family, to be more specific the importance of Juan Seguin’s role as a Mexican taking the American side for Texas

The non-fiction story, The Iguana, is a story told about a personal experience about the author. In non-fiction literature, everything is true. The facts are correct, the characters are real people, and the events actually happened. The author explains the time she shot a beautiful iguana, during her visit to Africa.

This particular story is like a complementary to the note lectures about the Aztecs. Also, this lecture help to understand

Early histories of the Tigua Indians are conflicting and largely untrue. Since 1680 it had been believed that the Tiguas were traitors to the Pueblo Nation, and had chose sides with the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt. Upon the Spanish retreat south it was believed that

La Llorona real name was Maria. Maria was a very beautiful mexican women with long thick black shiny hair and also very tall and skinny. She wore a white gown at all times and also with bare feet. She is very basic but not on the inside. She had two small sons that took up most of her evening time but still loved them like they were one and only.

Leon-Portilla based the stories told in this book upon old writings of actual Aztec people who survived the Spanish massacres. The actual authors of the stories told in this book are priests, wise men and regular people who survived the killings. These stories represent the more realistic view of what really happened during the Spanish conquest. Most of the history about the Aztec Empire was based on Spanish accounts of events, but Leon-Portilla used writings from actual survivors to illustrate the true history from the Indians’ point of view.

Coyote is a myth from Keresan pueblos of New Mexico. He has condemned to be a perpetual wonderer. Ortiz sees him "just trucking along". According to Native American Indians who were a deeply spiritual people, they communicated their history, thoughts, ideas and dreams from generation to generation through Symbols and Signs such as the Coyote symbol. Their symbols are geometric portrayals of animal designs, celestial bodies, and natural phenomena. Bird and animal symbols and totems are believed to represent the physical form of a spirit helper and guide. The Coyote is depicted as their ancestor, creator god, and a Trickster spirit. According to one Miwok creation myth "Coyote shook his walik" (something similar to a blanket of Tule) to the

The Lenca tribe is the largest indigenous group still in Honduras with about a population of 100,000. Much of their culture has been lost, such as their language. But not everything has been lost and something that still thrives today is their pottery. This has survived time by generations of mothers passing down this artistry to their daughters. Although, today the pottery still maintains Lenca tradition, they also incorporate modern style. These vases, bowls, and pots are decorated with geometric designs and the use of spotting . Spotting traditionally is meant to represent the spots on the moon. The usual color combinations are black and white, dark orange and black, or coffee brown and black. The women are able to stay home and make pottery

14. La Llorona – Is based on an old Hispanic urban legend revolving around the ghost of a woman who drowned her children in a river. She is also known as “The Weeping Woman”, is said to let out deep cries. This story is often used by parents to scare children from wandering the streets at night.

As the proverb goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty, as we know it, is subjective to each individual. However, some individuals are primed to perceive beauty as deriving from physique, clothing, and accessories; neglecting more important traits such as honesty and kind-heartedness. Aaron Shephard portrays in his short story, “The Hidden One: A Native American Legend”, that neglecting such traits results in failure. Any woman who makes deceitful attempts at proving they’re capable of seeing the Great Hunter is cast away. Little Scarface’s unpleasant older sister would “hold[] her down and burn[] her arms and face with sticks from the fire” (Shepard 1) and lie to their father about it. She claimed to see the Hunter and lied about that as well. The mistreated little girl is stripped of having appealing clothing and, what some may consider, a beautiful face; yet, only with her pure soul intact, she ultimately succeeds. The image of beauty the author is attempting to paint for you is that physical appearance only gets you to the door; the Hidden One, symbolized as the prize, is obtained with a “good heart”, free from “jealous[y] and cruel[ty]”.

money. Cortez along with the Spaniards ultimately destroys the Aztecs in their quest for fortune

Where did the folktale La Llorona initiate? The ascendance of the legend has its roots in Aztec mythology. One version holds that it is the Aztec goddess Chihuacoalt. They say that before the Spanish conquest a female figure dressed in white began appearing regularly on the waters of Lake Texcoco roaming the hills and terrorizing the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan as she lamented, “Oh, my children, where are my children?” The ancient goddess Chihuacoalt warned the fall of the Aztec empire at the hands of men from the East. It did with the arrival of the Spanish in the Americas once accomplished the conquest of Tenochtitlan it became the Aztec Empire. Perhaps this legend was later was adopted by the Spanish during the colonial period and was associated with La Malinche.

The Tequendama falls which the local people believe as a spiritual place is spiritual because it is believed that when slaves would run from the slave owners is that they would jump off the falls and become eagles to fly away from the slave owners. The institute of natural sciences is saying that the Hotel was closed because of the river contamination in the Bogota river. The Bogota river is right under the Tequendama falls which the Hotel sits on top of. The river became contaminated because of the sewage in the river. The people around the bogota river are trying to clean the river so the hotel can be reopened.The institute of natural sciences want to reopen the hotel as a museum for historical purposes. Hotel del salto is a haunted Hotel