Legend of my Guarani ancestors the Japeusa

Fuente: https://www.emaze.com/@AZFLZFRW/la-malinche

This is a Guaraní legend, many years ago in the land without evil of the Guarani to the side of the river Paraná settled a village of natives, in it lived a mother called Sypave with its three children called Tume Arandu, Yrasema and Japeusa.

Japeusa was a very mischievous child, he spent all day doing mischief, however Yrasema was a beautiful girl very dear and loved by the inhabitants for their sweetness and beautiful singing voice.

Yrasema had an angelic voice was the envy of all the birds of the forest, it is said that the nightingale was inspired by its sweet acanthus, owner of an enviable voice, the flowers, the branches of the trees even the animals moved to the rhythm of Song of the beautiful Yrasema.

His song as music enchanted those who heard his melodies, men, women, animals, plants, rocks, sang all day sometimes even at night, the only living witnesses of the beautiful Yrasema are the moon and the sun.

One night singing, he began with a terrible hoarseness, followed by a great pain when ingesting his saliva, then a terrible heat seized of his body.

His mother, Sypave, sends the mischievous Japeusa in search of remedy of the field, he must bring agrial leaves and inga shell, but the mischievous Japeusa brings ka'atai leaves, nettle and sour oranges, prepares a healing drink, but instead of Healing ends with the life of the beautiful Yrasema.

The sorceress of the village sings and shakes charms over the girl's body, recites magical words trying to revive the mortal body of the beautiful Yrasema, but death already wins the young woman's mortal body

All the very distressed people chant bouncing the remains of the beautiful Yrasema, the older brother Tume Arandu, who knows the secrets of nature, explains to the village that in order for the body to have the opportunity to be revived for eternal life, the body It must be put into a pit and covered with earth, to become earth, the earth keeps the dead and then to revive them, the earth is a living being, listening and feeling.

Under a large pink lapacho tree are located underground the mortal bodies of Yrasema, all the population dismiss the beautiful girl with her songs, which multiply in the silent forest.

Tume Arandu asks the Tupa for mercy to Japeusa. The Tupa is the Guaraní god who owns all mortal bodies, on which depends the pardon or punishment for Japeusa, however all the inhabitants of the tribe want to avenge the death of the beautiful Yrasema with their own hands, killing Japeusa

The mischievous Japeusa warns the situation and runs away in the direction of the Parana River, pursued by the inhabitants of the village has no choice but to get into the waters of the river.

The dangerous currents of the Parana receive it with gusto, wrap it in the river and take it to the bottom of the river, then throw a dead body on the banks of the Paraná.

You can see bones wrapped in cloths of clothing, suddenly the bones come alive, they move, from the bone of the mortal body is released a strange animal never seen.

It is Japeusa turned into crab.


Fuente: http://www.lavozdelsandinismo.com/curiosidades/2014-11-10/el-cangrejo-fuente-de-alimentacion-y-empleo/

The Guaraní God took pity on the mischievous Japeusa turned him into an animal, but as punishment never to forget the evil that caused his sister Yrasema, I condemn him to walk backwards, so every time I walk remember the evil that has caused.

I remember them belong to the past and to revive them you have to walk backwards, this is the reason why the crab walks back, as punishment of the Tupa every day will remember the evil I caused.

Fuente: http://www.cuco.com.ar/japeusa.htm

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

José Luis Fernández
Corrientes Argentina


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