The crazy Luz Caraballo
Paramo Andean also tells its stories of mystery and horror, one of its best-known cases is that of Luz Caraballo, a character of Venezuelan popular culture, especially Timotes, Mérida State and immortalized in literature by writer and poet Andrés Eloy Blanco, who tells it in “words of loca Luz Caraballo”: De Chachopo to Apartaderos
Walk Luz Caraballo,
with violetites of may
with january carneritos
Winters of the blizzard
farallon of the summers
with cold mountain ranges
between cliffs and bustles
they're getting old
the little fingers of your hands
The summit confines you
at the very breath of the name
what's left of man
who knows where he lives
Five years he doesn't write to you
Ten years you don't see
and between strokes and traps
chasing your sheep
they're getting old
the little fingers of your feet
Hunger bears in its chunks
cotton from their lambs
your illusion counts hatswhile you count boys
one female and four males
Climb, descent and jump
and when you ask for your hard
frilejon to forget you
the anguish is given to you
one, two, three, four, five
Your daughter is in a serrallo
two children died
the other two left you
behind a man on horseback
La Loca Luz Caraballo
says the judge's decree
because he found you once
without children and without rams
little ones los luceros
six, seven, eight, nine, ten When her husband was recruited and her two sons leave with Simon Bolívar in the independence struggle, she suddenly goes crazy wandering the streets of her village, even the legend recounts that when the Spaniards asked to know the course of Bolívar, Caraballo points the wrong direction, thus giving a false indication of the fate of their children and the Liberator. So much is the significance of this character that in the “Parque loca Luz Caraballo”, at 3,473 meters above sea level, which is built heritage of Mérida State, is the sphinx of Luz Caraballo; a woman with long rags, careless hair and raised arm pointing to the horizon with a finger high, and indicating the route that should be followed by the spanish. Also in the same place is the “Museum-Antiquities La Loca Luz Caraballo”, where objects belonging to it are exhibited, as well as colonial pieces of the time.
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