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From a beginning in the culture of the aborigines of Chiloé there appear the eternal motive forces of the universe: the positive thing and the negative thing.

The constant movement of both opposite forces that turns and tour from always, is presented in Chiloé by the telluric struggle between(among) the sea and the land, in the personification of the mythical reptiles I FELL DOWN FELL DOWN and HAVE HAVE.

The myth tells that it(he,she) does thousands of years the whole Chiloé's territory it(he,she) formed a part in an alone terrestrial body joined the continent

American. Before this struggle taking place(being produced) his(her,your) appearance did ás santioel spirit of the waters and the seas, I FELL DOWN FELL DOWN, in the shape of a snake. The waters of the sea initiated a fast ascent, flooding the low lands, the valleys, the hills, burying in his(her,your) depths his(her,your) inhabitants.

When the waters began to cover the whole territory, the protector of the land appeared, HAVE HAVE, initiating an assault against his(her,your) enemy, raising the level of the lands and protecting his(her,your) inhabitants, helping them to rise to the highest parts and it(he,she) provided some men with the power to fly or transformed them into birds. To I FELL DOWN FELL DOWN Vilu him(her) was impossible to reach the summits and to be imposed by his(her,your) waters.

It(He,She) stopped raining, the waters went down and everything returned to the normality. Few ones achieved to be saved from the great struggle, which extended in long time, the animals transformed in stones, the human beings who did not reach the summits of the hills transformed in fish(pitches), wolves... The valleys remained transformed into channels and gulfs, the hills and mountain chain into islands, which gave form to an archipelago of incomparable beauty.

 



Chilé's mythology, edition nº3, year 1991


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