Join us in supporting the South Texas Food Bank! https://www.southtexasfoodbank.org/Everyone in the border town of Laredo, Texas knows her story, or at least, one version of it. La Llorona, The Weeping Woman, is the phantom clad in white who haunts the Rio Grande at night. Few ever see her, but more hear her wailing cry, "¡Mis hijos!," meaning, "My children!" But that's about where the similarities end. Everyone you ask will have a different answer as to who La Llorona is, and what happened to her children one fateful night in the ancient past. In searching for La Llorona, we found an archetypal story of a woman scorned, the historical Mother of Mexico known as La Malinche, and even a goddess of the Mexica (often known as Aztec) people, the Snake Woman Cihuacōātl. Yet just like the waters La Llorona is said to haunt, each of these is connected. Mythos & Logos are two ancient words that can be roughly translated as “Story & Meaning.” Support the channel by subscribing, liking, and commenting to join the conversation!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mythosandlogos 00:00 Introduction 00:02 Carved Tree in Arteaga, Coahuila, with La Llorona, photographed by Gabriel Perez Salazar, licensed under Creative Commons 00:27 La Llorona, Traditional Parade of the Dead, photographed by CarlosGalvanMex, licensed under Creative Commons 00:32 Migrant Cross, photographed by DGAPA, licensed under Creative Commons 01:22 South Texas Food Bank Charity Announcement; photos courtesy South Texas Food Bank 01:32 Life & Death on the Rio Grande 01:39 Perspective Map of the City of Laredo, Texas by Henry Wellge 02:24 Life in Theater by Armando de Maria y Campos 02:34 Map of the Lower Rio Grande 03:18 Carved Tree in Arteaga, Coahuila, with La Llorona, photographed by Gabriel Perez Salazar, licensed under Creative Commons 03:29 La Llorona by Melvin Callejas 06:16 La Llorona Azteca 06:35 Artemio de Valle Arizpe, from the Sinaloa Historical Archive 07:07 Ceremonial Center at Tenochtitlan by Diego Rivera 07:14 The Slaughter of Cholula by Felix Parra 07:26 Street Scene, Mexico by Mortimer Luddington Menpes 07:47 Artemio de Valle Arizpe, La Llorona 08:34 Florentine Codex, Boox I by Bernardino de Sahagún 08:44 Aztec Stone Figurine, from the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City 08:59 Florentine Codex, Book XII by Bernardino de Sahagún 09:27 Florentine Codex, Book XII 09:50 History of Tlaxcala by Diego Muñoz Camargo 09:58 Monument to Mestizos by Julián Martínez Soto, photographed by Javier Delgado Rosas, licensed under Creative Commons 10:08 The Entrance of Hernán Cortes in Tenochtitlan by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Nieto, licensed under Creative Commons 10:45 First Meeting of Cortes and Moctezuma in Mexico 10:53 The Waters Below 12:02 Map of Tenochtitlan and Gulf of Mexico by Hernán Cortés 12:11 Mexico Tenochtitlan, the Valley and the Lakes in the Fifteenth Century by Luis Covarrubias 12:29 On The Rio Grande by Walter Ufer 13:15 Outro and South Texas Food Bank Charity Details All works of art are public domain unless stated otherwise. Ambiment- The Ambient by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Images from Life in Theater by Armando de Maria y Campos, The Curse of La Llorona (2019) La Leyenda de La Llorona (2011) poster for La Llorona (1933) and La Llorona (2019) reproduced under Fair Use per United States Copyright Office Circular 21, Reproductions of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians
