Legend has it that in colonial times, a girl was born on a mountain in Venezuela, the daughter of the chieftain of an indian tribe and a white woman. This girl had green eyes and white skin.
According to the tribe's sorcerer, because the girl was different from the others, she had to be sacrificed to the god of the rivers. The father, chief of the tribe, refused to sacrifice her and locked his daughter in a hut protected by warrior Indians.
According to the legend, the girl became a woman and was very beautiful, her hair was so long that it reached her hips. One day, while her guards were sleeping, she went swimming in the river. There the god "Anaconda" saw her, who was the god of rivers, and ate her.
The chief found out about this and wanted to rescue his daughter from the womb of the terrible Anaconda. The snake, being swollen with the chief's daughter in its belly, exploded and let out Yara, the woman, but she was no longer mortal! She had died while in the belly of Anaconda...
Legend has it that she left there converted into a goddess, a protector to the indigenous people, waters, nature and love. Over time this goddess received the name of "Maria Lionza".
To this day, she reigns in the mountain of Sorte in the Yaracuy state of my country Venezuela.
That is so sad!! From the beginning when she was supposed to be sacrificed because she was different. Parts of it reminded me of the movie Maleficient when the father hid her from the evil and she grew up to be a beautiful woman.