The Four Female Archetypes

La Llorona/The Wiping Women
La llorona is a Mexican legend, story or myth. The legend of the la llorona relates to a woman that had lost her children. The story says that she killed them because she wanted to get married with someone. La llorona killed the children in the river. The consequences of her killing her children were that she suffered of depression and she killed herself because of this.
Some people say that she appears looking for her children in the middle of the night. Other say, that only a person can see here if they have a bad behavior. The legend says that persons that see la llorona see that she is dressed all of white and she has a cloak on her face.
Mexican people use this story to scare there children, especially mothers that cannot control there children’s bad behavior. Others use this legend to put their children to sleep. For example: “If you do not sleep early the llorona comes for you and she takes you with her.”
In Mexico, la Llorona is a person that is crying all the time, most of the time this is a person suffering and that is lamenting itself. Lower classes can see la. For Example: People lamenting for things they don’t have in that moment that are either materialistic or physical can see her.



La Curandera/ Spiritual
La Curandera a person that can take the paper of a doctor and fake being one. The curandera dose not needs a title or a diploma because she has the power to cure. She has only the gift of cure for her god. The curandera comes from a cultural tradition. This tradition started in the Indigenes until today. In the past everybody went to her for cure for anything and today some people go to cure a bad eye or because of indigestion and they are cured spiritually. La Curandera is a person that helps lower class people because they do not have enough money to go to the doctor.



La Malinche/ Malinzzin
The story of La Malinche is part of the history of Mexico. She became the possession of Cortes after of the victory of Spanish and the village. The legend says that the real name of the la malinche is Malinzzin or Malinalli. People called her la malinche because she was the translator between the Indian and Colon conquistadores. La malinche told
Cortes many secrets of the Indians. After la malinche was Christianized she changed her name to Marina. La malinche was the woman of Colon. Colon and Malinche had a child. The name of the child was Martin; some people called him the bastard of Colon.
La Malinche is a person that is a traitor. La malinche can represent in all of the levees of social economic wealth.



This is the Guadalupe Basilica Church and Teotihuacán Pyramids, now Mexico City. Teotihuacán is an Arco logical zone with more the 2,000 of History.



La Virgen Maria de Guadalupe

La Virgen Maria de Guadalupe is the mother of God and was first seen 1531 in Tepeyac; she represents the unity, spirit, and strength of all the Mexicans in Mexico and this is why she is called “Mother of all Mexicans”. On her special day December 12 all Mexicans go to La Basilica and have a celebration for her, where they bring flowers, sing songs, and pray.

La Virgen represents the pure in each woman especially in Mexico. Some people say if a woman is pure and virgin, she can get married with the respect of her husband. This definition of pure is followed by all of the social levees, but especially in the high society.