Post by Varos Talantos on Mar 6, 2012 3:22:28 GMT -5
Children of La Llorona
La Llorona is a widespread legend in Central America and the southwestern areas of the United States of America. Legends tell of a beautiful woman by the name of Maria killing her children by drowning them. In an act of jealousy resulting from the attention her lovely children drew from the man she loved and the lack of attention he gave her, she threw her young ones into the river to die. After she did this, however, she came to the realization of her deeds and immediately dove into the river to save her children. She died in the cold waters that night. Challenged at the gates of heaven as to the whereabouts of her children, she is not permitted to enter the afterlife for eternity. She has been destined to wander along all banks and shores searching for her children.
Maria is said to claim any children wandering near the river at night. She puts her long, bony fingers on the child's shoulder and says,"Aquí están mis hijos," or in English ,"Here are my children."
While the fable is nothing more than that, her children were manifested in the Lake of the Khyper-Diorem, knowledgeable and mature as they were fabled to be. The anger of the wrongdoing performed and the knowledge of their mother's ever-murderous ways has driven them in fury to react violently. Though their mother never existed, they believe wholeheartedly that she is out there drowning others every night and they therefore strike at any adult-looking figure of any species that is lured into their grasps at the Lake of the Khyper-Diorem. They are always lurking in the water they cannot escape, prowling about for the next unsuspecting adult to come into the water.
