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Conquest of Mexico and has also been linked to two Aztec goddesses who could be linked to La Llorona.

The first is Ciuacoatl (Snake-woman), described as ‘a savage beast and an evil omen’ who ‘appeared in white’ and who would walk at night ‘weeping and wailing’. She is also described as an ‘omen of war’. This goddess could also be linked to the sixth of ten omens that are recorded in the Aztec codex as having foretold the Conquest: the voice of a woman heard wailing at night, crying about the fate of her children. Once she realized what she had done, she succumbed to such profound grief that she spent the rest of her days wailing by the river in search of her children. Another version has the regretful Maria flinging herself into the river where she drowns as well. Yet another has a drunk maria coming home, drowning her children, and then being cursed for her neglectfulness to search for them for all of eternity.

Whatever the version she is always in white and always wailing.

The origins of the legend are uncertain, but it has been presented as having pre-Hispanic roots. La Llorona is thought to be one of ten omens foretelling the

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Yet in order to hit all the elements of La Llorona, we must also look at another Aztec Goddess, Chalchiuhtlicue.

In her we find the links to water and infanticide. According to the Florentine Codex, Chalchiuhtlicue (the Jade-skirted one) was the goddess of the waters and wife of the rain god, Tlaloc. She is described as ‘feared’ and ‘caused terror’. She was said to drown people and overturn boats. Ceremonies in honor of the rain gods, including Chalchiuhtlicue, involved the sacrifice of children. These sacrificial victims were bought from their mothers and the more the children cried, the more successful the sacrifice was thought to have be.

It appears overall, that La Llorona may be an amalgamation of the two Goddesses. Some believe hearing the wailing of La Llorona is a warning of death or war, in the tradition of the omens the Aztecs had to the coming conquest and there distruction.

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