Venezuelan Myths and Legend 3 "Maria Lionza"

Maria Lionza was a maiden, the enchanted daughter of a powerful cacique, the shaman of the village had said that when a strange-eyed girl was born, water-green should sacrifice it and offer it to the owner of the water The Great Anaconda, because if it was not to come a ruin for the tribe, but her father was unable to do so and hid her in a cave in the mountain with twenty warriors who watched her and prevented her from leaving, she was forbidden to see her reflection in the water, but one day a strange force numbed the guards who were in charge of watching her and walked towards the lake, discovering her own reflection in the water, and while she was watching her reflection in the water she woke up "The Great Anaconda" that came out of the depths of the lake falling in love with she and thus attracting it, when her father discovered their union I try to separate them so the anaconda grew and became huge, and it exploded causing a great flood that devastated the village and its people , and from that day Maria Lionza became the protective goddess of the lagoons, rivers, waterfalls, mother protector of nature and wild animals.

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She is represented as a white woman with a golden crown on her head and a rose and a flag on her right hand, and on the pennant she has written her mission as a goddess that is to protect the waters and the crops.