Ay de mi, Llorona, Llorona de azul celeste.
Ay de mi, Llorona, Llorona de azul celeste.
Y aunque la vida me cueste, Llorona
No dejaré de quererte.
Y aunque la vida me cueste, Llorona
No dejaré de quererte.
Ay de mi, Llorona, Llorona de azul celeste.
Y aunque la vida me cueste, Llorona
No dejaré de quererte.
Y aunque la vida me cueste, Llorona
No dejaré de quererte.
(Alas, weeping woman as blue as the sky, although it costs me my life, I cannot stop loving you.)
La Llorona.
The Cempasúchil (Flor de Muerto)
Tagetes erecta, the Mexican marigold, also called Aztec marigold, is a species of the genus Tagetes native to Mexicoand Central America.
Its flower, the cempasúchil is also called the flor de muertos ("flower of the dead") in Mexico and is used in the Día de los Muertos celebration every 2 November. The word cempasúchitl (also spelledcempazúchil) comes from the Nahuatl term for the flower zempoalxochitl, literally translated as "twenty flower".
Photo Dori
Photo: Coatl15
La Calavera Catrina
La Calavera Catrina ('Dapper Skeleton', 'Elegant Skull') is a 1910–1913 zinc etching by famous Mexican printmaker, cartoon illustrator and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada. The image depicts a female skeleton dressed only in a hat befitting the upper class outfit of a European of her time. Herchapeau en attende hola and European styles of the early 20th century. She is offered as a satirical portrait of those Mexican natives who, Posada felt, were aspiring to adopt European aristocratic traditions in the pre-revolutionary era.
"La Calavera Catrina", zinc etching, 34.5 x 23 cm.
José Guadalupe Posada
Photo: Randal Sheppard October 28, 2007
Ascalapha odorata
The erebid moth Ascalapha odorata bears the common name Black Witch. It is considered a harbinger of death in Mexican and Caribbean folklore. In Spanish it is known as "Mariposa de la muerte" (Mexico & Costa Rica).
In many cultures, one of these moths flying into the house is considered bad luck: e.g., in Mexico, when there is sickness in a house and this moth enters, it is believed the sick person will die, though a variation on this theme (in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas) is that death only occurs if the moth flies in and visits all four corners of one's house (in Mesoamerica, from the prehispanic era until the present time, moths have been associated with death and the number four).
