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FOLKLORE

La Llorona

A legend known throughout the Americas -- the quintessential cursed female spirit, this is La Llorona, The Weeping Woman. The image below is an early one I put together combining a photo I took and a sketch I drew in Photoshop.
Llorona del desierto
Llorona del desierto 2009

The Visitation / ​La Visitación 

This painting is more recent and one I drew in Illustrator, a drawing program.  To me, La Llorona carries the collective burden of the violated, maligned female down through history.  I wanted to give her tormented spirit some rest and redemption.
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The Visitation / la Visitacion
The Visitation / la visitacion 2019

 La Que Sabe, La Loba ​
She Who Knows, Wolf Woman

   They say she lives among the rotten granite slopes in Tarahumara Indian territory. They say she is buried outside Phoenix near a well. She is said to have been traveling south to Monte Alban in a burnt out car with the back window shot out. She is said to stand by the highway near El Paso, or ride shotgun with truckers to Morelia, Mexico, or that she has been sighted walking to market above Oaxaca with strangely formed boughs of firewood on her back. She is called by many names: La Huesera, Bone Woman, La Trapera, The Gatherer, and La Loba, Wolf Woman.
As told by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD, Women Who Run With the Wolves​.
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La Loba / La Que Sabe
La Loba / La Que Sabe 2019

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La Corua-Baboquivari-Mts
*  La Corúa  was a large, fierce looking but benevolent water serpent that lived in springs of water and protected them. They say it had a cross on its forehead and cleaned the veins of water with its long fangs or tusks. It was a shy creature but could sometimes be caught sunning on the rocks of the spring.  According to Sonoran folk beliefs, if one killed the Corúa, the spring would dry up.  Vanishing water sources and  economic pressures have pushed the folklore of La Corúa  to the dustbin of history on both sides of the border, but La Corúa remains in the minds and memories of elders in the Pimería Alta.

Serpents have been sacred for millennia to indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and are respected as guardians of water sources and bringers of rain.

* Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta  -  James S. Griffith, University of Arizona Press, 1992

Background painting:  Baboquivari Peak - the monolith landmark defining the Baboquivari mountains southwest of Tucson. The center of Tohono O'odham cosmology, it is sacred and is the home of I'itoi, their Creator and Elder Brother. The peak is visible from Casa Grande in the northwest, south into Mexico.  (I'itoi is also the figure in the O'odham 'Man in the Maze' basket design.)

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