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Guadalupa compilation
EDITEDANDILLUSTRATEDBYERIKAMARQUEZ
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And of all those who love me, of those who
cry to me, of those who search for me, of those
who have condence in me, in my Teocalli, I
will listen to their cry, to their sadness, so as
to curb all their different pains, their miseries
and sorrows, to remedy and alleviate their
sufferings to realize what my compassionate,merciful gaze intends, she said to make known
her precious will.
ANTONIOVALERIANO,Huei Tlamahuicoltica
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The Virgen de Guadalupe is an iconic religious gure that has inu
Hispanic culture for centuries, and her prominence is undeniable o
and homes of East Cesar Chavez Street in Austin, Texas. She plays
role in symbolizing Mexican identity through religion, culture, emp
and social justice. Seeing her portrayal on murals, grafti, statues, t
gurines, candles, and so much more, has allowed me to feel her in
I walked through the streets of the East Cesar Chavez neighborhoo
This book intends to reect my experience in this culturally unique
explore some personal views on the Virgin de Guadalupe. This com
writings is taken from the book Goddess of the Americas: Writings on t
Guadalupe, edited by Ana Castillo. The book is comprised of short st
poems, and prose composed by Chicano writers who have been imp
Virgen in some way. I have combined these writings with illustratio
by pictures that have been taken on East Cesar Chavez Street to sho
Virgens inuence in the community in a poetic and artistic way.
Prologue
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In the early morning on December 9, 1531, an Indian named Juan D
his way to a Roman Catholic monastery in Tlatelolco when he hear
celestial music near the hill of Tepeyac. The sky turned a bright bea
and he heard a voice telling him to ascend. He obeyed and what he
of the hill was the Blessed Virgin Mary, standing in the midst of a g
in heavenly splendor. Juan Diego was in complete awe. She told hi
was the perfect and eternal Virgin Mary, Mother of the true God, him of her wish to have a shrine built on that hill so she could dem
her love, compassion and her protection. She requested him to sp
Bishop in Mexico City and tell him of her desire.
The Bishop did not believe Juan Diego and requested proof of her
He was scheduled to see the Virgin the following morning, but his u
Bernardino, became gravely ill, so Juan Diego was unable to meet u
As he was on his way to bring a priest to his dying uncle, the Virgin
him again. He explained to her his reasons for not being able to me
having to care for his sick uncle. Upon hearing him, the Virgin reas
that they were under her protection, and that his uncle was already
She requested Juan Diego to ascend the hill where they previously
there he would nd many blooming owers. She asked him to pick
owers and bring them to her. He did as she asked, having placed through cloak, or tilma, and wondering all the while how it was possib
owers bloomed on the stony hill where owers not once bloomed
Virgin rearranged the owers on the cloak and told him to send th
Bishop as the sign he requested.
The Story
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Juan Diego met up with the Bishop, with cloak and owers in hand. He opened
the tilma to show the Bishop the sign, and as the owers cascaded to the oor,
there appeared upon the coarse fabric of the Indians mantle a marvelously
wrought, exquisitely colored portrait of the Blessed Virgin.
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Prose
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some sources claim Juan
Bernardino answered: She calls herself
Tlecuauhtlacupeuh. Tlecuauhtlacupeuh
does not translate as the Christian Mary.
Tlecuauhtlacupeuh means She Who Comes
Flying from the Light Like an Eagle of Fire.
Am I not here, your Mother?
Are you not under my shadow and protection?
Am I not your foundation of life?
Are you not in the fold of my mantle, in the
crossing of my arms?
Is there anything else you need?
ANACASTILLO,Introduction
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Conoc a la Virgen de Guadalupe en Extremadura, Espaa, y la nuestra
la Mexicana, es ms guapa. Creo estar enamorado de la imagen de
la Virgen de Guadalupe.
I saw the Virgin of Guadalupe in Extremadura, Spain, and our Mexican one is
better-looking. I think I am in love with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Contemporary Mexican Composer
Juan Gabriel
Mi mamagrande Romana toda su vida mantuvo un altar pequeo en
esquina del comedor. Siempre tena las velas prendidas. All haca p
a la Virgen de Guadalupe.
Coatlalopeuh, She Who Has DominionOver Serpents
by GLORIAANZALDAby JUANGABRIEL
Gloria Anz
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My Virgen de Guadalupeis not the mother
of God. She is God. She is a face for a god
without a face, an indgenafor a god without
ethnicity, a female deity for a god who is
genderless, but I also understand that for her
to approach me, for me to nally open the door
and accept her, she had to be a woman like me.
Guadalupe the Sex Goddessby SANDRACISNEROS
Sandra Cisneros
On the windshield, the rain
has become ever ner. When
don Luis gets out of the VW it
is no longer raining. I see him
through the glass standing
on the sidewalk. He smiles. I
cant see his teeth. Above allelse, I look at his beautiful
solid ascetic head. Around his
face, the Virgin of Guadalupe
has created a triple-layered
rainbow from the water
droplets. Watercolors emanate
from it in pale hues, but
nevertheless I can discern:
green, white, and red.
Dont Go Away, Im Going toBring You Something
by ELENAPONIATOWSKA
Elena Poniat
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Of the two candles my grandmother ordered,
Saint Jude is the patron saint of the desperate,
the terminally ill, a no-nonsense heavenly
emissary when all other hope is lost. His
devotional candle is green and dispels the
malevolence that has overtaken us as it burns.
The other candle was devoted to none other
than Our Lady of Guadalupe, our Mexican
Mother who is unfailing when our mortal
mothers, all too human and burdened by lifes
demands, arent there. Our beloved Mother
who takes us back into the folds of Her robe at
the hour of our death.
Extraordinarily WomanbyANACASTILLO
Ana Castillo
.I arrive at the front of the super
Now I have twenty-one candles to
on the counter. The people behind
impatiently for me to nish lining
The people in front of me get out
quickly. The black woman behind
Why you buying all them candlesBecause theyre cheaper here. Th
cashier rings up seven Guadalupes
green, three white, and one bright
looks at me quickly and lowers her
Caridads, Reg Miguels, Blue Regla
of others, unmarked, unnamed.
I walk out of the store to the music
dancing and change jiggling in my
Before I get to the car I hear the w
was behind me say to her husband
fooling nobody, that woman worki
with them candles. She knows. I t
and look at her. We both try not to
The Warrior Queen: Encounters wi
by LUISAHTEISH
Luisah
Latin Lady
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When Our Mother is seen only as the one-
dimensional Mary of modern times, instead
of the great dual force of life and death, She
is relegated to the same second-class status
of most women in the world. She is without
desires of Her own, seless and sexless except
for Her womb. She is the cook, the mistress,bearer and caretaker of children and men. Men
call upon Her and carry Her banner to lead
them out to war. They show Her off, take Her
love and magic to form a formidable fortress, a
team of cannons to protect them against their
enemies. But for a long, long time the wars
that women have been left to wage on behalf
of men, on behalf of the human race, have
started much sooner, in the home, in front of
the hearth, in the womb. We do what we must
to protect and provide for our young, our
families, our tribes. Because of our humility,
we call upon Her privately, quietly in prayer,
from our kitchens and bedrooms, as if She
had more important matters to tend to besidesthose of a mother, of all mothers, besides those
of any ordinary woman when no woman
born who knows herself could
ever be ordinary.
byANA CASTILLO
Extraordinarily Woman
Ana Castillo
When I was eighteen, I met this guy with a rotating Our Lady doll.
it in Mxico, so, of course, I fell in love.
His skin was white, he ate broccoli, and he spoke like actors in a TV
was everyPartridge Family/ Brady Bunchepisode rolled into one. He
many things how to kiss like the French, lick an earlobe, and danc
dark. Once, my grandmother, la Abuela, sent us lovers a crate of grapoff our clothes, smashed the grapes all over our bodies, and licked t
off each other.
When he left, la Bruja Malditas hand replaced his in my heart. And
pounded on it. She laughed like Mexican mothers laught while han
at a clothesline. My sorrow was so strong, but I kept it hidden with
were like the veils my aunts wore at Immaculate Conception churc
sorrow bled through, like stigmata, like rushing waters, and my rela
say,Ay mijo, dont you understand?Blood is thicker than water, family
than friends, and that old Virgin, Our Lady, she just watches over all of us
The Dollby LUISALFARO
Luis
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Essays
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The most striking features of her anatomy are the eyes. On Decemb
on the eve of the Virgins most solemn festivity, Archbishop Luis M
stirred a commotion when he announced on the radio that he had
a commission for the scientic study of the Virgins eyes. Years befo
studying close-up photos of the painting, had discovered certain re
the corneas that to his own artists eyes suggested a human shape. I
of the ocular iris, the reection suggested a human being, perhaps nthan Juan Diego kneeling in adoration before the Queen of Heaven
F. Gonzalez -
The Anatomy of a VirginbyF. GONZALEZ-CRUSSI
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What accounts for Hispanics massive and
persistent devotion to Mary? Latin American
and U.S. Hispanic theologians view Marian
images from a liberationist theology point
of view: Marys cult appeals strongly to the
oppressed because she gives dignity to
downtrodden people and thus renews theirenergy to resist assimilation into the dominant
culture. Further, as Virgil Elizondo points
out, the cult not only liberates downtrodden
peoples but also liberates us from a restrictive
idea of God (Johnson 1989: 514; Elizondo
1977:25-33, 1983b).
Jeanette Rodriguez
Guadalupe: The Feminine Face of Godby JEANETTERODRIGUEZ
Jeanette Rod
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Our Lady of Guadalupe manifests divine power and might: The word power comes
from the Latinposse,meaning to be able, yet often when we think of power it is
in terms of having power oversomeone or something, rather than power with.
Again and again, the women in my study found that in encountering and being
in the presence of Our Lady of Guadalupe they regained their sense of self in
an accepting and empowering relationship.
Our Lady of Guadalupe images power with, in a dynamism centered around
mutuality, trust, participation, and regard. The power accessed by these women
in their dialogue with Our Lady of Guadalupe is the power of memory, which
she continues to stand for, justice, solidarity with the oppressed, belonging,
unconditional love, the power of expressed feelings and sharing (women come
to her and share their immediate needs and they feel heard). The power of
commitment, the power to endure suffering, the power of caring, the power
of risk (As long as she is beside me, Im going to keep trying), the power of
naming fears, the power of knowing that the way things are is not the way
things are meant to be, and with her help they are encouraged and given hope.
She gives them not the will to suffer under injustice, but the will to continue
la lucha(the struggle).
Jeanette Rodriguez
Guadalupe: The Feminine Face of GodbyJEANETTERODRIGUEZ
...In the Chicano movement, la Virgenwas no longer the contempla
Mother of all Mexicans, but a warrior goddess who blessed the cultu
political weapons of activists and artists,. She was against racism, th
patrol, the cops, and supremacist politicians. And in the Chicano fe
Olympus, la Guadalupanastood deant and compassionate as a sym
female strength, right next to la Malinche, Frida, Sor Juana, and mo
Selena. She was no longer just standing motionless with prayingand an aloof gaze. She actually walked; she showed up in demonstr
strikes, and lent her image for barrio murals, album covers, T-shirts
posters. She could even sit down and take a break, abandon tempo
holy diorama and jog, or let a working-class woman temporarily tak
as in the artwork of Lopes.
The Two GuadalupesbyGuillermoGmez- PeA
Guillermo Gmez
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Guadalupeunites people of different races, religions, languages: Chicano
protestants, American Indians and whites. Nuestra abogado siempre sers/ Our
mediatrixyou will always be. She mediates between the Spanish and the
Indian cultures (or three cultures as in the case of mexicanosof African or other
ancestry) and between Chicanos and the white world. She mediates between
humans and the divine, between this reality and the reality of spirit entities.
La Virgen de Guadalupeis the symbol of ethnic identity and of the tolerance forambiguity that Chicanos/mexicanos, people of mixed race, people who have
Indian blood, people who cross cultures, by necessity possess.
Coatlalopeuh, She Who Has DominionOver SerpentsbyGLORIAANZALDA
Gloria Anzalda Gloria Anz
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Poetry
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She Who Inspires Her people,
She Who leads them to ght.
Shine like the Sun in the daytime,
Sooth like the Moon in the night.
LUISAHTEISH, The Warrior Queen: Encounterswith a Latin Lady
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Excerpt from the poem, Mi Guadalupe by C.P. Ests.
Mi Guadalupe is a girl gang leader in heaven.
She is unlike the pale blue serene woman.
She is serene, yes, like a great ocean is serene.
She is obedient, yes, like the sunrise
Is obedient to the horizon line.She is sweet, yes,
Like a huge forest of sweet maple trees.
She has a great heart, vast holiness
And like any girl gang leader ought,
Substantial hips.
Her lap is big enough
To hold every last one.
Her embrace
Can hold us,
All
Guadalupe: The Path of the Broken HeabyCLARISSAPINKOLAESTS
Clarissa Pinkola
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I want to go to Mexico City and be mysterious and sad
I want a one-way ticket and a blank notebook
I want to stay at the Flora Hotel
Cheap, but very clean,
Hotel with an interior courtyard
Poinsettias that are taller than I am
I want to go to Mexico City and be mysterious and sadMen, and women too, will look at me and ask
Who is that beautiful mysterious woman
And why is she sad?
Every day at ve oclock
I will walk through the Alameda Gardens
Give one American quarter to each of the rst three beggars
Watch the man swallow re
I will go to the lobby with the Diego Rivera mural
Death walking on a Sunday with Mrs. Death
I will order two shots of tequila
I will drink only one
I will lick the back of my hand
Sprinkle salt on it
Lick that off
Like a child who has stayed all day at the beachI will drink a shot of tequila with a ghost
I want to go to Mexico City with a borrowed suitcase
All my bras will be black and my underpants white
Hotel FlorabyMIRIAMSAGAN
Miriam Sagan
I will wash them by hand in the little sink
Hang them on the balcony to dry slowly
Smelling of diesel fumes
I will build a shrine on my bureau top:
Red plastic comb, two pesos,
Postcard of Frida Kahlo
Sequined Virgin of GuadalupePiece of lave, and a key
To a room that is not mine.
Miriam
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Madre
aqu ests
con nosotros?
enjuganos
el sudor
las lgrimas
Coatlicue
t que reinas
sobre las serpientes
Chalchiuhcueye
haznos
el favor
Citlalcueye
que nos guen
tus estrellas
Guadalupe
s nuestra auroranuestra esperanza
bandera
y fuego de
nuestra rebellin!
Mother
are you here
with us?
wipe up
our sweat
our tears
Coatlicue
you who rule
over snakes
Chalchiuhcueye
grant us
our request
Citlalcueye
let your stars
guide us
Guadalupe
be our dawnour hope
the ag
and re of
our rebellion!
TonantzinbyFRANCISCOX ALARCN (English translation)
Francisco X. Alarcn Francisco X. A
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Returning from Watsonville
the road, a forest of apparitions
the Mother Creator
in every Standing
Sequoia
every Virgin Forest.
Ehcatl
follows me
reminds me to listen
to the stillness
observe
her subtle and violent
appearance
in pine-scented breezes
copal dancing smoke
in icy san Francisco windswhipping through open bedroom
windows, sudden slamming
doors: did she enter just then?
was she taking leave
or her senses?
Our Lady of the Cannery WorkersbyCHERREMORAGA(forCELIARODRIGUEZ)
In June 1992 in Watsonville, California, a U.S. Mexican town of cannery and
agricultural workers, a woman reported that la Virgen Mara had appeared to her
near the county park lake where her son had drowned a few years earlier. Nearby,
a tree took on the Virgins form in its bark.
Cherre Moraga
she, the pinwheel descent
of an aging
oak
leaf
Is this the same tree
sheltered beneath the giantumbrella of sequoia
that bears the shape of Guadalupe
in its breast? A tattoo
emblazoned into the scaling bark esh
that same slight inclination
of shrouded head, the same
copper rose shade
imprinted on the tela
of Juan Diegos prayer?
Tonantzn
te traigo fores.
Pilgrims hold up mirrors to the sun
Beams of light ricochet in all directions.Earthmother colors
illuminate
coastal gloom,
factory shut-downs
migra raids.
Cherre M
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Ahora,la ves?
S.
Dios te salve
Mara.
Juanita vestida de blanco
advises the faithful,Let go de su coraje.
I thread
my angry ngers
through the chain link
a sagging fortress
of protection.
My swollen knuckles
woven into the rusting wire
like rosary beads
of pink, turquoise-colored glass
carved pine wood
draped from curling polaroids.
Family prayers hang
by a thread
of Christmas ribbon.
There is one who refuses
to pray the catholic words
buries small ties
Cherre Moraga
of tobacco at the four corners
she is Diegos living relative
her anger, righteous
and unforgiving.
If la virgin appeared to me,
what would she look like?Not cannery worker
but pintora?
Sequoia Virgen
I see you in every crevice
of your burnt red esh
vagina openings split
into two thick thighs
of female eruption.
you grow old and tall
you fall
you turn to seed.
Cherre M
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Jews must be everywhere
Even in La Puebla, New Mexico
Where we pass Good Friday pilgrims
Wearing Walkmans
Dusty along the highway.
Its Shabbos, the two sets of candles
Adorn the tablesSet with sea shells
Seder means: the order
In which things happen
Egypt means: narrows
For plagues we dip our ngers in the wine
Hail kills your tomato plants
You quarrel
With a neighbor about a wall
A friend is unexpectedly in jail
Baby cries in the emergency room
Homeless men sleep in the arroyo
Stumble across Paseo to the liquor store
So drink four cups of wine
Its only the second time this year
Jews must get drunk
And lie down with our shoes off
On comfortable couches
The children are playing in the dusk
My daughter feeds a large white horse
A bunch of golden apples
PassoverbyMIRIAMSAGAN
Miriam Sagan
Desert smells like the sea
Of sand and wind and something else
Clean, and scoured
Miriams Well
Springs within
Green oasis that must
Reappear within our heartsVoices singing slightly off-key
This source of water
Follows us
Despite our exile, wandering.
Miriam
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Goddess of Love
Goddess of Death
Eater of Filth
Mother of all Seasons:
Mother of the Rivers
Cleanse himWith water owing
From the Fountain of Youth
Mother of the Hummingbirds
Dry off his last tears
Kiss each aching bone
Dress him in morning owers
Mother of the Mountains
Caress him with murmurs
Take him into your bosom
The dream of your deepest canyons
Mother of the Night
Weep with usLight his path with the glow
Of stars along the Milky Way
TlazolteotlbyFRANCISCOX ALARCN
Francisco X. Alarcn
Mother of the Sea
Embrace his ashes
Turn him into bright red coral
Amidst scools of laughing sh
Mother al All Season
Eater of FilthGoddess of Death
Goddess of Love
Tlazolteotl!
Francisco X. A
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Acknowledgements
Photo CreditsAdela Arreola
Elyssa Turner
Andrea Rojas
Brandy Shigemoto
Erika Marquez
Sonia Astorga
Allison Santos
Katie Strahl
Brief History of the Apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. QueenAmericas Guild., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2013.
All illustrations done by Erika Marquez from photos taken by
Castillo, Ana, ed.Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of
Guadalupe. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. Print.
Martinez, J. Michael.Heredities : Poems / J. Michael Martinez. n.p.:
Baton Rouge, [La.] : Louisiana State University Press, c2010., 2010.
ST EDWARDS UNIVs Catalog. Web. 21 Nov. 2013.
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