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   [Date]: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:44:38 -0700 (PDT)
   [From]: "J.R. Ruiz" <nclassic@vcn.bc.ca>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: La Llorona


Hi again:

Just something else... the Cihuapipiltin when apeared sometimes was crying
for her children. She said a lament something like "Aye, no pipiltin..."
"Ay, mis hijos" (oh, my children"). And this was and maybe is a very
common thing about this. That is very congruent with Cihua-pipiltin and
with la Llorona (the Craying Woman").
I believe the classical mith have no much differences with the teachings I
heard when I was a children. To me it is not different from its classical
origin, maybe because part of my family are Nahuatl speakers from Mexico
city (Tlahuac Ticic). And the various personal differences that appeared
after are based on the Spanish influence, the distance from the original
source and the creativity of different peoples which, at the end, made
different stories and maybe they are also related to other traditions. But
the original and "mainstream" Llorona is quite near to what I knew and it
is widely supported by oral traditions, documents of the time 5 centuries
ago in Nahuatl and Spanish, codexes and etc... but most of all, the
children who was rised under the misteries behind our window... secure on
our beds, knowing that, in the dark of the night, outside our home, the
Llorona was wandering and our best choice was to sleep... we have kept her
alive and wandering, in stories, novels, poems, movies, paintings,  and
even in the virtual space.


:-)


regards


Jose Tlatelpas

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