Picture by Aranxata
I fell in love with a Purepecha of Tzintzunzan. I have a picture of her clearly in my mind - sitting on top of the largest round Yacata, overlooking the lake; there is a hoop of silver in her ear; she is an expectant, confident young queen dressed in an embroidered white cotton shirt.
Across from us on our left we can see a weathered cathedral and monastry, it's sweet yellow stone is visible through the trees. The breeze blows off the lake, combs into the pines and then washes back - bringing the scent of winumo.
===A legend relates of a 16–17 year old Princess Erendira of the P'urhépecha led her people into a fierce war against the Spanish. Using the stolen Spanish horses her people learned to ride into battle. ===
ReplyDeleteThis one, Phil? ... Not the best-written wiki entry, that, I think you should go there and rewrite it. . . Gorgeous pic, and I'm sure your Purepecha princess is, too. What an ancestress, though.
Erendira is a very common name in Michoacan. I'm going to expand this blog into a wiki type gloss for "Why I love Michoacan."
ReplyDeleteMy name is Erendira Camarillo and my Father named me Erendira because of the courage of this Princess Purehpecha. I am 32 years old and live in Texas but even though I live here my blood is of the Purehpecha. I have 4 children and teach them as my father taught me of my traditions and were we came from. I am very proud of whom I've become and will live it always in my children.
ReplyDeleteErendira,
ReplyDeleteSorry I didn't answer earlier. It's such a beautiful name. My wife is Purhepecha and I asked her if she would have named one of our girls Erendira and of course she said she might have.
The Aztecs tried to conquer Michoacan. The Purhepechas defeated the Aztecs and only 2 Aztec soldiers returned alive from an army of 20,000. The Aztecs were so angry and humiliated that they sent an army to a much weaker part of Mexico and took bloody revenge on another people. I think they attacked the Mixtecas.