Legends of my country: "The sorceress of Mérida"

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Legend has it that in the Andes of Mérida, specifically in the Sierra Nevada, there was an indigenous tribe. The princess of the tribe was called Tibisay. She was the girlfriend of the brave warrior Murachí.

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The night before going to fight, she delighted them with her singing and dancing and in the morning they would engage in combat with the invaders of their lands. They would fight with the "children of the sun", which is what they called the Spanish colonizers who carried fearsome weapons.

The warrior Murachí told his princess that if he returned alive from combat, she would be his wife. But if, on the contrary, he died, she asked her to flee and not to let herself be caught because the colonizers would enslave her.

Murachí died in the confrontation, and the invading Spaniards enslaved the Indians and destroyed their fields, but Princess Tibisay fled.

According to the legend, when the breeze blows the Spanish heard the sad song of the princess who did not stop crying for her beloved Murachí. They say that with her tears the Arbarregas River was formed.

In the city of Mérida you can see a statue in his honor. Very close to it there is a park in Los Chorros De Milla that has a waterfall with the name of Princess Tibisay.

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I'll most definitely see this waterfall and the statue... Such a short story for something rather significant.

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3 years ago

Do you think it is a story to write more about it? I hadn't realized that the robot never passed by here hahaha. Thank you for your vote in favor.

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3 years ago

Not that I think there is more just that the story seem speed up. As if it's missing more smooth details even made up one, like wind breakers or anything to serenade the readers.

This is less than two minute read, the bot (rusty) like reads over 4 minutes preferably +8 minutes long.

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3 years ago

All those stories were in my beginnings here. I was dabbling in writing and started to like this type of narrative. And I did it with stories from my country. My apologies for the mistakes made. In those days the robot still did not work and when it began to reward it, it went to other of my short publications from my beginnings but only now I see that it did not come to this one. Thank you for your very honest opinion. Thank you. Hopefully and I have improved my style today.

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3 years ago

Such sweet apologies Dr. Its ok really. This is a clear demonstration of growth, my 2021 power word. Your style has improved drastically. Like + 1000 %. The bot can't be our only gauge. We have to grow on our own too. This was a good one. I love the full Venezuelans more though 😏🥰

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3 years ago

Thank you! you're very kind. Good that you like my stories at that point, you flatter me, thank you. The robot is good to receive money I love when it does it but there are stories that I have written and the bot does not like it but I do not care. Being a story of my creation and seeing the effort I made to write it along with the comments of my friends, that for me makes up for a momentary lack of reward. Thank you for getting here with my posts. And thank you for your love for Venezuelans. A hugggg.

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3 years ago

Awww... another sad legend. There are so many sad legends there. I guess most legends usually end sadly.

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4 years ago

Yeah that's right. I think that all the legends are based on tragic stories that happened to people or families.

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4 years ago

So some people still dedicate statues and monuments for folklore characters. That's fascinating. I wonder if people ever did get to hear the ssd songs

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4 years ago

This is a monument made back in the 1970s to complement the history of a warrior people that faced colonization. .

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4 years ago

Ohh so it's bern around for so long now. I don't get how erecting monuments ever help in the case of uplifting the people who fought against colonization

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4 years ago

It is somewhat allegorical. It is good to defend our rights and that it is worth giving our lives for it. There are still populations that reject civilization and do not allow the penetration of man.

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4 years ago

Yes but i still don't understand the need to waste precious materials just for a monument when the sentiments can be left on paper or in the continuous spread of the lores

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4 years ago

People always find multiple ways to teach their florklore to others. We are talking about a tourist town that tries to convey by all possible means, such as singing, narration, images on monuments and in writing, the culture of a ferocious people. Mérida is a city that has many allegorical monuments to its various wars in colonial times. It has locations that are based on stories with characters who day by day play roles of what happened in the colonial years. Their art is expressed through monumental images and drawings as well as the clothing they wear. This is how they live their pride, their gentilicio for all who want to know their history.

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4 years ago

Even here in the Philippines there are so many legends.Even little things like fruits but it's okay because they are fun to read

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4 years ago

There are legends all over the world. They are part of the culture of the peoples. And they have some reality in their content.

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4 years ago

Pre-Spanish and arrival stories are always interesting to me. Spanish and British record keeping are so vastly different one could easilly get the feeling it was two different creatures that invaded the Americas.

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4 years ago

They tell their stories as the successful penetration of civilization in the indigenous world. But the destruction and death they generated to achieve their goal is what remained in the minds of the survivors. That the natives transmitted to others, the horror of their slavery.

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4 years ago

I am surprised about hearing you have Indians in your country and how many legends you have. The only one I heard of who formed a lake with his body tears (?) is the Hungarian giant Balaton.

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4 years ago

The virgin jungles of Venezuela still have inhospitable tribes. Where the tribes prevent human penetration. There is a recent case in which a "tribal expert" wanted to penetrate an untamed place and was repelled with a poisoned arrow. He died instantly. I don't understand what he wanted to demonstrate by entering untamed territory. There are many unstudied tribes in our jungles. Some have only been spotted through the air.

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4 years ago

I cannot say I feel sorry for "expert" who clearly wasn't an expert. Respect others their lifestyle, area and stop the interfering. They will survive the longest.

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4 years ago

This expert on Amazonian tribes dies on the border of indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. But the same thing happens in the Amazon rainforest of Venezuela. Rieli Franciscato was a tireless fighter for the defense of indigenous tribes. But he did not respect the limits.

Nor do I agree with the penetration of man into these untamed tribes. They only bring disease, mistreatment and contempt to the dispossessed classes. They are fine where they are. If they weren't well, they would have gone for help. They just don't want anyone to enter their domains.

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4 years ago

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What a sad story, since colonial times the indigenous people have been fighting with the Spanish for our lands, resources, many were enslaved and tortured, The Spaniards also sexually abused the Indians, how good that Princess Tibizay fled from Lu...

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We have many sad stories in our folklore.

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