LAS LLORONAS Traditionally, La Llorona represents a woman wronged in some sense, and her subsequent revenge upon her perceived wrongdoers. In most stories, La Llorona starts out as a woman betrayed by a man, resulting in the tragic loss of her children. Ussually, she is presented as a victim, as a woman who has surrendered her life to emotions such as pain, sorrow and loneliness, shackled and doomed forevermore to carry the weight of these emotions.
Any person, male or female, who experiences these feelings, carries within them a piece of La Llorona. Thus a child, an abuelita, a father, a son, a daughter, can experience these emotions called La Llorona.
However, as in all good myths and stories, the character herself undergoes multiple transformations as to her purpose and use. The following stories represent the various ways in which La Llorona has revealed herself to me.
Even though the stories are
fictional, the
nature of these stories are real, just as the feelings conveyed and
lessons learned are real to me. I hope you enjoy this amalgamation of
the real, the imagined and the felt.
