Guaraní Legend The birth of the Mburucuyá

Fuente: http://www.mirartegaleria.com/2015/03/cuadros-de-mujeres-indigenas-de-mexico.html

The mburucuyá is a northeastern Argentine plant, grows like a vine through the fences of the houses and in the mount on the branches of other plants, has a fruit very similar to an orange egg and a beautiful flower very particular.

Popular beliefs resemble the flower with the crown of Jesus on his head, the nails he was set on the cross, the sores of his body and the strings of his prison, the fruit inside holds some red seeds, believers Resembling them with the droplets of blood that flowed from the wounds of Jesus' body.

This is why there are two legends, one referred to the fruit and the other to the flower of the mburucuya.

In the land without evil of the Guarani, very close to the Paraná River were established Guarani Indians, very close to the place were settled Jesuit monks with the intention of teaching the Indians the word of Jesus. Both villages were separated by a dense jungle.

Every day the Jesuit priests crossed the jungle to catholize the natives through the divine word.

One day, a monk crossed the jungle. At that moment I heard some cries among the reeds. When he saw himself, he could see a girl dead in fear hidden behind branches of a tree, being chased by a great yaguareté, managed to escape and hide in that place. The Jesuit monk approached the place attracting the attention of the dangerous yaguareté, once he got the jaguar to chase after him, he shouted to the girl to leave her confinement and flee to the village.

The yaguareté began to follow the monk, with claws and claws of his claws ripped the life of the Jesuit, falling lying on the floor of the jungle, staining the place blood red, in the same place soon grew a plant before never seen , The mburucuyá or pasionaria whose fruit reminds the world, the true value of suffering for others.


Fuente: http://www.radiopasionaria.com.ar/inicio/menuItem/4

The legend that characterizes the Flower of the mburucuyá is a strange girl of the place.

With the arrival of colonization of the Spaniards to the land of the seven Currents, a beautiful girl arrived with her father, the daughter of a Spanish captain.

The beautiful white girl with golden hair caught the eyes of the entire Guaraní village, but especially that of a handsome young Indian, who was in her Guarani language called the beautiful girl as mburucuyá.

Soon these young people were already in love, every afternoon they were hidden in the clearing of the forest, the young woman knew her father very well, this union would never be accepted by the Spanish captain, she would never have accepted that her beautiful daughter was Marry an indigenous Guarani.

The father chose to husband of the young woman to a captain who loved her a lot, but that she hated with all her soul, when her father informed of his decision she was strongly opposed by her lack of love, her heart already had owner, this He greatly angered his father the captain.

The father, on learning of his love, watched over the beautiful young woman, so that the couple of lovers could see each other less and less, she could not go out at night, it was impossible for her to avoid her vigilance, to accompany her the young Indian hidden in the shadows of The jungle played an original music with her tacuara flute, every night to company with her melancholy music, one night there was no sound of flute and the next night also, the beautiful girl who knew the dangers of the jungle I attribute that I would be hurt By the claws of a jaguar.

The days passed the young Indian did not seem, this was not very common in him, she felt that something serious had happened, the anguish won his heart, became very sad and lost look, his eyes covered by the dark circles revealed that days ago She did not sleep, hoping to hear the sounds of her beloved's flute, but that sound never came, alone, in the company of her anguish, she spent her days waiting for the sign of her beloved.
One afternoon, looking lost in the direction of the jungle, she saw an old Indian woman, who turned out to be the mother of the young man, bringing terrible news, her lover had been murdered by orders of her father, the old lady giving the News disappeared by the same road that came.

The young Mburukujá went after the old lady, asked to take to the holy field where the remains of the body of her beloved were, the remains of her beloved remained in the aerial tombs wrapped with furs, as are the indigenous customs.

When she saw this, she made a great hole in the earth, under the body of her beloved I put it in the pit, took the arrow that her beloved young man had given her as an offering of love, with the same arrow stuck in his heart Falling dead with her beloved.

At the request of the beautiful girl, the old Indian woman covered the bodies with earth, giving burial to the two bodies of the lovers, from that day and every day the old lady visited the tomb of the lovers, that was how one day she saw with astonishment From the grave of the young grew a little plant that she had never seen with her many years.


Fuente: https://www.flickr.com/photos/briandg/5102496986

Thus received its name the plant that grew of murucuyá, the inhabitants to see the beautiful flower attributed to the approval of the Tupa by the sacrifice of the beautiful young woman.

Fuente: http://visitemosmisiones.com/noticias/recomendaciones/leyendas/mburucuya/

I'll wait for you tomorrow to enjoy another account of my land Corrientes.

José Luis Fernández
Corrientes Argentina


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