Del Pompom of exquisite water ...
As a child I was very lucky, I knew how to find it when I contemplated the Yumurí Valley. Life brought me back to a spring: the Pompon, of the City of Matanzas, with its pure and fresh waters that the neighbors used and where the mocking and other restless Matanzas birds, quenched the annoying thirst.And an unknown poet, back in 1850, wrote a delicate and loving little song that became one of the Matanzas legends ... I didn't want to include it together with the others because I thought that all the Matanzas knew her and that they also knew that the author had used the word hermitage (then it did not exist in Monserrate) to rhyme the verse that ends: with a matancerita.
This now forces me to copy the Cantarcillo del Pompon Matanzas. Says so:
Del Pompom of exquisite water
nine days you don't drink
With a matancerita.
Because if you try water
wedding you will do in the Hermitage.
Sleeping India
Matanzas Bread is the highest height in the city; it measures 389 m above sea level; According to this geographical accident, it has its origin in a legend of our province: Sleeping India.
Legend has it that in the Amerindian town of Yucayo, lived a beautiful Indian named Baiguana. The beauty of India was such that it drove men crazy because they all looked for and gave themselves to everyone, so she was forced by the chief to live far from the village. But all the men went to Baiguana and fishing, hunting and sowing were lost due to lack of attention. Chief Manguaní went to the Jibacabuya River, which was the most powerful tributary of the Largo River, to speak to the water mouth of the Bat God and ask him for advice to resolve the issue of the beautiful and ardent Baiguana. By order of God, Chief Manguaní brought a magical fish as a gift to India. When Baiguana ate him, he lay down to sleep in front of his bohío looking at the moon and when the sun threw his blood arrows on the earth, Baiguana had become gigantic and made of stone. Baiguana was only a mountain shaped like a sleeping woman.
Matanzas Bread is the highest height in the city; it measures 389 m above sea level; According to this geographical accident, it has its origin in a legend of our province: Sleeping India.
Legend has it that in the Amerindian town of Yucayo, lived a beautiful Indian named Baiguana. The beauty of India was such that it drove men crazy because they all looked for and gave themselves to everyone, so she was forced by the chief to live far from the village. But all the men went to Baiguana and fishing, hunting and sowing were lost due to lack of attention. Chief Manguaní went to the Jibacabuya River, which was the most powerful tributary of the Largo River, to speak to the water mouth of the Bat God and ask him for advice to resolve the issue of the beautiful and ardent Baiguana. By order of God, Chief Manguaní brought a magical fish as a gift to India. When Baiguana ate him, he lay down to sleep in front of his bohío looking at the moon and when the sun threw his blood arrows on the earth, Baiguana had become gigantic and made of stone. Baiguana was only a mountain shaped like a sleeping woman.The Abra of Yumurí
The characters of this legend are: the daughter of a chief of the western region and the son of the chief of the Great Camaguey. They say that when the Indian Coalina was born, great parties were held to celebrate it and when they were more excited they were an old behique, unknown to everyone and prophesied that when the girl grew up she would become a beautiful Indian and when a crush would fall in love.
So that the prophecy of the behique was not fulfilled, when the beautiful Coalina grew up, she was taken to the top of a mountain in a hut surrounded by old Indian women armed with bows and arrows to prevent the approach of any man, thus avoiding that the young woman India would run the risk of falling in love. The news of the captivity of the beautiful Indian Coalina reached the siboney cacicazgo of distant Camaguey and aroused the curiosity and desire of Nerey, heir of the aforementioned cacicazgo, who decided to travel the distance that separated him from the captive to meet her. After much walking mountains, plains and rivers, the handsome young Indian came to the hut that hid the Indian princess and saw her all adorned with flowers, so similar to a virgin who immediately fell in love with her. So beautiful was the language of love that the Indian used to speak to the young woman, that the innocent Indian also fell in love.
But with every word of love the lovers said, the mountain shook louder and louder. The frightened guardian Indians ran down the mountain screaming Coalina has fallen in love! The mountain shook more strongly and frightened Coalina took refuge in the arms of the brave Nerey. At that moment the mountain opened in two, dragging the young and through the gap the river rushed taking the lovers. Legend has it that on the nights of the full moon when the wind passes through the open you hear "Coalina and Nerey" murmur.
The characters of this legend are: the daughter of a chief of the western region and the son of the chief of the Great Camaguey. They say that when the Indian Coalina was born, great parties were held to celebrate it and when they were more excited they were an old behique, unknown to everyone and prophesied that when the girl grew up she would become a beautiful Indian and when a crush would fall in love.So that the prophecy of the behique was not fulfilled, when the beautiful Coalina grew up, she was taken to the top of a mountain in a hut surrounded by old Indian women armed with bows and arrows to prevent the approach of any man, thus avoiding that the young woman India would run the risk of falling in love. The news of the captivity of the beautiful Indian Coalina reached the siboney cacicazgo of distant Camaguey and aroused the curiosity and desire of Nerey, heir of the aforementioned cacicazgo, who decided to travel the distance that separated him from the captive to meet her. After much walking mountains, plains and rivers, the handsome young Indian came to the hut that hid the Indian princess and saw her all adorned with flowers, so similar to a virgin who immediately fell in love with her. So beautiful was the language of love that the Indian used to speak to the young woman, that the innocent Indian also fell in love.
But with every word of love the lovers said, the mountain shook louder and louder. The frightened guardian Indians ran down the mountain screaming Coalina has fallen in love! The mountain shook more strongly and frightened Coalina took refuge in the arms of the brave Nerey. At that moment the mountain opened in two, dragging the young and through the gap the river rushed taking the lovers. Legend has it that on the nights of the full moon when the wind passes through the open you hear "Coalina and Nerey" murmur.