The four priests waited expectant.
His lively little eyes were the starry sky where the great white moon ruled, the Argentine Mirror Lake Texcoco, where flocks of ducks fell silent looking for salamanders fat.
After confronting the movement of the star constellations to determine the time, with his deep knowledge of astronomy.
Suddenly the cry broke ...
It was a pitiful, hateful, eerie scream. A sharp sound like escaped from the throat of a woman in agony. The cry was spreading over the water, bouncing off the mountains and curling in the rafters and on the slopes of the temples, bounced off the Great Teocali dedicated to the god Huitzilopochtli, began to build Tizoc in 1481 to finish Ahuitzotl in 1502 if ancient chronicles have been well interpreted and seemed to be floating in the wonderful palace of the then Emperor Moctezuma II.
It's Cihuacoatl! She exclaimed the oldest of the four priests awaiting the portent.
-The Goddess has come out of the water and down the mountain to warn us again, 'said the other interrogator of the stars and night.
They climbed to the highest temple place and could see to the east a white figure with hair combed so it seemed to take on the forehead two small ergots, dragging or floating a trail of fabric so vaporous that playing with the cool plenilunar night.
When he was overshadowed cry and its echoes were lost in the distance, in the direction Manor Texcocan all was silent, ominous shadows fled TOWARDS water until the terror was broken by something that the priests first and then Fray Bernardino of Sahagun interpreted as follows:
"... My children ... beloved children of Anahuac, your destruction is coming ...."
He came another string of equally painful and poignant regrets, to say, when he walked away up the hill that covered the slopes of the mountains:
"... Where will you go .... where I'll be able to bring you as worthy to escape doom .... My children, you are about to lose you ... "
At these words later proved the augurs, the four priests agreed that this ghostly apparition of terror that filled the people of Tenochtitlan, was the same Goddess Cihuacoatl, the protective deity of the race, that good mother he had inherited the gods to finalmentente place your power and wisdom in Tilpotoncátzin holder in that time his priestly dignity.
The emperor Moctezuma II sparse mustache that seemed escurrirle from the corner of his mouth atuzó, smoothed with a hand beard sparse hairs and grizzled and nailed his lively but shy little eyes in the old codex drawn on the tanned surface amatl and it was kept in the archives of the empire perhaps since the time of Itzcoatl and Tlacaelel.
Emperor Moctezuma, like all those who are uninitiated in the knowledge of the hieratic script, just stared in amazement multicolored codices, until the priests, after bowing, he interpreted it written there.
'Sir,' they said, these annual old tell us that the Goddess Cihuacoatl appear according to the sixth prognosis of soothsayers to announce the destruction of your empire.
Here say the wise wiser and older than us, that strange men come from the East and subdue your people and yourself and you and yours will be many tears and great sorrow and your race will disappear devoured our gods and humiliated by other more powerful gods.
Gods more powerful than our God Huitzilopochtli, and the Great Destroyer Tezcatlipoca and our formidable gods of war and blood? Moctezuma said lowering his head with fear and humility.
So what the sages and priests wiser and older than us, sir. So the Goddess Cihuacoatl roams the Anahuac throwing and sliding penalties crying, shouting to hear those who know how to hear, the misfortunes that have to go very soon to your Empire.
Moctezuma was silent and looked thoughtful, sunk in his great throne of alabaster and emeralds; then the four priests returned to bend the astonishing codices and also withdrew in silence, to go again to deposit the imperial archives, which left written that the wiser and older.
So from the time of Chimalpopoca, Itzcoatl Moctezuma Ilhuicamina Axayacatl, Tizoc and Ahuitzotl, the phantom soothsayer wandered between lakes and temples of Anahuac, hawking what would happen to the then powerful and domineering race.
When the Spaniards arrived and began the conquest, according to the chroniclers of the time, an equally dressed in white and with black mane of hair tremolando the night wind woman appeared in the southwest of the capital of New Spain and taking course towards the east, crossing streets and squares as in the wind, stopping before the crosses, temples and cemeteries and images illuminated by votive lamps in ornacinas gritty, to launch the plaintive cry that hurt the soul.
-Aaaaaaaay My children ... Aaaaaaay aaaaaaay - The lament is repeated as many times as he had the night hours in the morning the lady of fiddling robes billowing in the wind, stopped in the Plaza Mayor and facing the Cathedral muttered a long prayer and suffering to get back up, throw back his complaint and go on the lake, which then came to the outskirts of the city and near the trace.
There was never brave who dared interrrogarla. All agreed that it was a ghost wandering penaba by an unhappy love, branching into a thousand stories the reasons for this appeared to be transplanted to the colonial era.
Romantic said it was a poor woman deluded, other than a lover abandoned with children, it was not the usual embroidered fabric of a nobleman who deceives and leaving a beautiful woman without lineage.
The truth is that since then was christened "La Llorona" because of the heartbreaking lament that blew through the streets of the capital of New Spain and for many decades was the largest flea fear, for all people avoided leaving their go home and less when the dim colonial streets had already been given a curfew.
Many remained timid crazy and never forgot the horrible vision of "La Llorona" men and women "went to the waters" and hundreds and hundreds ill with fright.
Slowly and over the years, the leyende of La Llorona, renamed by other names depending on the region where it was assured that was seen was taking other nationalities and their presence was detected in South America where our unusual It ensures that still appears ghostly, wearing her filmy dress, tossing his terrifying scream, fording rivers, crossing streams, climbing hills and wandering peaks and mountains.