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Rachel’s Lament is explained as the anguish she feels over the massacre of innocent children

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lilith/

www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical...bible/lilith-in-the-bible-and-mythology/

Lilith, thought to be Adam’s first wife committed adultery with Satan and gave birth to 100′s of demon children a day. God punished her by destroying 100 of her demon children daily. Just like La Llorona out of selfishness she causes the death of her children

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source (Fr. Ted’s Blog WordPress.com)

According to the Gospel of Matthew, perhaps Rachel’s anguish is over the exile of the Holy Family. (Mat 2:16-29)

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Greek Mythology: The Story of Lamia

Lamia, like La Llorona has no end from her grief over her dead children

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Folklore: In All of Us, in All We Do edited by Kenneth L.

A Greek version associated with La Llorona, Lamia mistress of Greek god Zeus, they had two children. Hera his wife found out of the affair and killed their children and turned her into a child devouring serpent. Hera also gave Lamia the inability to close her eyes so she couldn’t find rest from the horrifyng image of her dead children. Like La Llorona Lamia has no end from her grief.

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Medea, Greek Myth

Crying Wind, African Folktale

Ciuacoatl, Aztec Goddess

Banshee, Irish Legend

Siren & White Woman, Philippine Versions

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Jeremiah 31:15 Rachel’s Tears - Christian Courier

Apostle Matthew’s interpretation, “Herod the Great, slaughtered the male infants in his brutish attempt to eliminate the baby Jesus” (Matthew 2:17-18).

Like La Llorona, the death of innocent children is smiliarity

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Maravillosa canciòn de la llorona cantada en nàhuatl.Nuestro glorioso pasado indigena. .Chokani (La Llorona) kizaya teokalli tonal chokani ihkuak pano onik i...

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Among the many gods directly concerned with the maize cycle, we find, for example, Cihuacoatl (“woman-serpent”), an earth goddess who, among other things, presided over the dry, barren months before the rainy season opened (Pic 12). She was an old goddess, with a skull-like face that symbolised death in the sense that her body could no longer give birth to new life in the form of food. However, with the coming of the spring rains she was replaced by a younger earth goddess who would oversee the renewed fertility of the earth so that the young maize seeds could start to grow.Among the many gods directly concerned with the maize cycle, we find, for example, Cihuacoatl (“woman-serpent”), an earth goddess who, among other things, presided over the dry, barren months before the rainy season opened (Pic 12). She was an old goddess, with a skull-like face that symbolised death in the sense that her body could no longer give birth to new life in the form of food. However, with the coming of the spring rains she was replaced by a younger earth goddess who would oversee the renewed fertility of the earth so that the young maize seeds could start to grow.

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http://www.reformation.org/coatlicue-guadeloupe.html

Coatlicue is multifaceted. As Coatlicue she is the Aztec earth goddess, creator and destroyer of earth, mother of gods and mortals, the one who gave birth to the moon and stars. But she is also called Teteoinnan, the "mother of the gods," Toci, "our grandmother," Cihuacoatl, the fearsome goddess of childbirth and patron of those women who die in birth, Tonanantzin, "our mother," Tlazolteotl, the goddess of sexual impurity and wrongful behavior and simply, "Snake Woman." Additionally she is also known as the goddess of fire and fertility, of life, death and rebirth, and mother of the southern stars. Fitting for a goddess of such vast meanings and responsibilities, her appearance is... complex. As snakes symbolize fertility, her face is said to have been of two fanged serpents, her skirt of interwoven snakes. Her breasts are depicted as flabby, for she nourished many. And, as the earth consumes all who die, her necklace is made of human hearts, hands and a skull. Yeah, not exactly the portrait of a loving mother

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The temporary exhibition space at the Getty Villa is an awkward space. The row of adjacent, small-sized galleries combined with the large scale works on loan from Mexico could have been disastrous, but the exhibition designers and curators did a successful job stuffing the herd of Mexican elephants into these small rooms. (Click here to see what it took to display these elephants.)

Some elephants: Xochipilli & Cihuacoatl.

The exhibition space is also odd because of the hallway that links the rooms; it is architecturally unavoidable because it circumvents the inner peristyle garden of the Villa. The wall title of the exhibition and several large-scale works were placed in this window-lined hallway and lure visitors into the rest of the exhibition.

The rooms were organized thematically: Tenochtitlan, First Encounters, The Florentine Codex, Parallel Pantheons, and Art and Empire. This was predictable technique, but the content of the rooms was not. Seeing Aztec objects displayed next to European objects, like a painted screen depicting the Spanish conquest, was a totally new and unprecedented exploration of history and art.

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On Friday, I went with some friends to the Getty Villa, located on the coast in Malibu. They had an exhibit called 'AZTEC PANTHEON', featuring art from pre-Colombian Mexico. As my comic book EL MUERTO deals with Aztec mythology, I had read many books on the subject, but to see some truly amazing examples in person was quite an inspiring event. The exhibit runs till July 5, and I wholeheartedly recommend a visit. The Getty Villa is itself a beautiful treasure to behold, and if you go during perfect weather like I did, you'll double the enjoyment.

#cihuacoatl Aztec Gods

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mythology meme- one/ten gods or godesses.

CIHUACOATL. ("snake woman"; also Cihuacóatl) was one of a number of motherhood and fertility goddesses. Local Aztec folklore possibly influenced the legend of La Llorona; the goddess Cihuacoatl was said to have appeared shortly prior to the discovery of New Spain by Hernán Cortés, weeping for her lost children, an omen of the fall of the Aztec empire.

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http://lecturasennewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2010/11/dia-de-muertos-escultura-mexicana-en-el.html

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Cihuateotl tiene el rostro de calavera por que eran consideradas la contraparte femenina de los guerreros en la sociedad mexica. Las mujeres que morían al dar a luz recibían el alto honor de acompañar al sol desde su cenit al mediodía y hasta la puesta por el oeste.Se creía que vivían en el horizonte del oeste en Ciuhatlampa (lugar sagrado de las mujeres).

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/354799276865507068/

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