The world's creation
(Mexican legend)

Recording by USA

Here in our world, in our country, there was long ago, some men, some habitants that, because they lived away from the other groups in the world, they formed a special religion, only theirs, their very own, and that helped them explain the world ' s creation and the creation of men and everything that exists in earth.
Those ancient habitants looked like the ones that still live in our country, and they are our compatriots: The Indians. Almost every Mexican has Indian blood in their veins.
The Indians from today descend from them. They were also Indians.
Well, those ancient Mexican Indians had a religion. They didn ' t believe in just one God, but in many. But in-between all their Gods, there was one that was superior. They called him Ometecuhtli.
Ometecuhtli was in the highest of the skies. He was seated in a chair adorned with beautiful feathers, and from where he was seated, he saw the moon and star of the evening. On his forehead, he had a brilliant splendor.
Ometecuhtli first created the skies, that were 13, and inside them, he put the sun, the moon, comets, clouds and air.
Afterwards, he created the world.
But Ometecuhtli divided himself in two, the God Tonacatecuhtli and the Goddess, his wife, Tonacacihuatl .
Tonacatecuhtli and Tonacacihuatl had 4 children : one was red, another black, the third one white and the fourth one the color of copper. The fourth one was left handed and was born without skin. He was named Huitzilopochtli, and he was the most loved God of all Mexicans.
Those 4 brothers stood 600 years in laziness, and then they got together and finished the creation of the world.
They stared to work.
They separated water from land.
They created new Gods.
And they formed the first man, named Cipactonal, and the first woman named Oxomoco ; they ordered Cipactonal to plant crops and Oxomoco to do fabric.
For the creation to be complete, Huitzilopochtli put skin in his skeleton.
And that ' s when the world began being populated.

Drawings: Richie (USA), Sasha (Russia), Patricia, Pamela(Mexico)

The weeping lady
(Mexican legend)

The legend dates back to the mythology of the Aztecs. They say that the goddess "Chihuacoalt" was the protector of the humans. They say that long before the Spanish conquest, a figure in the shape of a woman with a white dress started appearing regularly above the waters ok the lake of Texcoco and started walking by the colonies scaring the people of the great Tenochtitlan . "My sons, where can I take them so they can escape such a horrendous destiny", she cried. The Indians claimed she was "La Malinche", a young Indian woman who had been the mistress of Hernan Cortes. She was sorry for having betrayed her race.
One group of priests decided to consult old prophecies. The ancients had warned that the goddess Chihuacoatl would appear to announce the fall of the Aztec empire made by the men of the east. The apparition consisted in the sixth prophecy of the end of their civilization.
The Llorona represents normally a mother in sorrow by the loss of his children and always appears with a dress and veil, both white, but it can vary from region or the version of the legend.