There is the longest and most passionate story about La patasola that anyone has already known. It tells a detailed story of a woman who changed myth into a tragedy and a vehement story. I hope you will enjoy it. =D
Sunday, May 31, 2015
CHARACTERS
Main characters
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La patasola
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Age: 23
Occupation: Accounting assistant
Role: She is the main character
who was amputated and almost murdered, for that reason, she became in a
horrible monster to revenge her tragedy. Nowadays she tricks on every man
near the forest where she is provisionally located.
Family: She was married and she was the
mom of two children. Unfortunately, she is alone and widow now.
Localization: Currently,
she lives in a bus within a forest from Tolima department, near her last
house.
Height: 1,80 cm
Short description: She was the prettiest woman in the town. She had got
long and straight black hair, she was slim, and she had got expressive green
eyes, thin lips and pale skin before changing her shape into a beast.
Personality: She was vain, unfaithful,
independent, manipulative, but humble and she used to love any rich men who would
like to be with her. She looks like a sweet person although she is always
looking for her own welfare.
Background:
She had been a peasant before she started to study at an institute
where she could learn some bearings about being an accountant. Afterwards, an
aunt of her offered her a job where she finally would meet her ex-husband and
got married.
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Henri
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Age: 25
Occupation: Accountant
Role: He used to be La
patasola’s husband but, at the end, he became in a murder.
Family: He was dad of two
children and he was “happily” married before his death.
Localization: He
used to live in an estate near Magdalena river.
Height: 1,90 cm
Short description: He was handsome, slim and brawny;
he had got brown and short hair and beautiful light brown eyes.
Personality: He was a friendly, honest, responsible, kind,
jealous, respectful, helpful and faithful person. He liked to stare at his
wife when she was walking around him. Especially, it made him happy like a
child.
Background: He was a good university
student. He got graduated with honors from his major. Later, he started
dating his last boss’ wife, and for that reason he met his future boss and began
to work with him. Once he had to travel to the town where he would live with
La patasola time later, and there, he interviewed his future wife to work
with him. Since then they fell in love until his death.
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Henris’s Boss
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Name: Horacio
Age: 58
Occupation: Owner of one of the most
important livestock dealers in the country.
Role: He was La patasola’s lover
and the boss of her husband.
Family: He was married until he cheated his wife
with his employee’s wife.
Localization: He lived in an estate near Ibague where he also
worked with Henry.
Height: 1,80 cm
Short description: He was an old man. He had got deep blue eyes and
gray hair. He always wore smart clothes, he was middle-size and he never had
a beard.
Personality: He always was a persistent,
egocentric, responsible, successful and picky person. Every Friday night he
liked to go out without his wife, to have sex with hookers.
Background: He had been a lawyer in
Bogotá but he quitted because he always wanted to have his own enterprise. Before
he started his new life he fell in love with his boss’ secretary, time later
they got married and run away together to the place where he would start his
business on the state.
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OTHER
CHARACTERS
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Patasola’s daughter
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Age: 5
Occupation: Primary student.
Role and family: She is La patasola’s
daughter, who was murdered by her dad.
Localization: She used to live with her parents and her brother in
her dad’s estate.
Height: 70 cm
Short description: She was short. She had got
light brown hair and big green eyes. Also she was slim as her parents.
Personality: She was a super sweet girl. She
was always smiling and having fun. She liked to play with her brother and to
go to school. She was a kind, friendly, innocent, well-educated, helpful and
tender girl.
Background: She always had a good
relationship with her family, although most of the time she was playing with
her brother or at school.
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Patasola’s son
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Name: Daniel
Age: 13
Occupation: Secondary student
Role and family: He was La patasola’s son, he
was murdered by his dad.
Localization: He used to live with his parents and his sister in
the estate.
Height: 1,50 cm
Short description: He was handsome. He took
after his father. He also had got light brown hair but green eyes like his
mom and sister. He was slim and the tallest guy in his class.
Personality: He was a responsible,
respectful, kind, shy, happy, smart, gentle and humble person. He loved to
help the others like his dad.
Background: He studied at the same
school of his sister until his dad murdered them. He always look up his
father. He used to say that he would have liked to be like his father when he
grew up.
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Henri’s boss’ wife
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Name: Miriam
Age: 56
Occupation: Housewife, Horacio’s ex-wife
and Henri’s ex-girlfriend.
Role: She is the last Henri’s
friend and his boss’ wife.
Family:
Localization: She lives at his ex-husband estate.
Height: 1,65 cm
Short description: She was pretty. She was
blonde. She had got light brown eyes, thin lips, and physically, she looked
like a 30 years old woman.
Personality: She was honest and innocent,
but she always was out of her mind. However, she was responsible, given to
people, and a good wife and friend.
Background: She was a secretary over
twenty years until she fell in love with Horacio and ran away with him.
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Men from Tolima
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 Role: According to the legend,
some married men try to scare their wives with La patasola myth. They
represent in general, men from Tolima department.
Localization: Tolima department.
Height: 1,50 – 1,80 cm
Short description:
Personality: They are headstrong, kind, helpful, committed, happy,
generous, responsible and respectful.
Background: They belong to some
indigenous communities over all from Ibague area. They have an opita speech.
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Women from Tolima
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Role: According to the legend,
some married women were scared by their
Localization: Tolima department.
Height: 1,50 - 1,80 cm
Short description:
Personality: They are kind, jealous,
smart, responsible, tender, helpful, committed, respectful, given to people,
loved and comprehensive, also they have a strong character, they are strict
and some of them shy.
Background: They belong to some
indigenous communities overall from Ibague area. They have an opita speech.
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PLACES
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Estate:
It was located near Magdalena river and was full of nature and birds around.
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Forest:
It was dangerous and dark at nights, but full of natural marvels and amazing
viewpoints. Therefore people near there had to take care with wild animals
and thieves that used to hide there.
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Some curious data
- La patasola legend is very famous around South America, so, in every region there is a different although at the same time a similar version from La patasola, even in Colombia this legend is told in various ways.
- In some versions of La patasola, it says that La patasola sings a song when she is happy and alone that song is:
Yo soy más que la sirena;
en el monte vivo sola;
y nadie se me resiste
porque soy la Patasola.
En el camino, en la casa
en el monte y en el río,
en el aire y en las nubes,
todo lo que existe es mío.
Translation
I
am more than the mermaid;
In
the mountains I live alone;
And
nobody refuses me
Because
I am La patasola.
On
the way, at home
In
the mountain and in the river,
In
the wind and in the clouds
All
that exists is mine.
- La patasola has statues in some touristic places around Colombia, such as, Huila, Boyacá and Quindio, for example in the National Park of Coffee. Also her image appear in a lot of festivals, parades and performances during the year.
- In some schools, students make some performances about this myth. Above all in departmental celebrations.
- The song used in the myth was originally written by Roberto Lopez, he just wanted to compose a song based on La patasola legend. Here is a link in which you can listen to it complete but in Spanish. https://open.spotify.com/track/230AbFz0Z9RmpCAKRX0eSg (song number nine [searched in 2015])
- The story have been spreading over Colombia and then to all South America. Making it one of the most famous myths in pre-Columbian stories or legends.
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| Hemyco (2014) Fotos cerca de San-Andres, Tolima dolores tolima [Photography]. Taken from http://www.verfotosde.org/colombia/imagenes-de-San-Andres-19487.html |
“TOLIMA: THE MUSIC LAND”
The information provided here was based on:
http://www.colombia-sa.com/departamentos/tolima/tolima-in.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/
General information
As it was mentioned in the myth. La patasola, who was born,
grew and still is living in Tolima. It is a beautiful and delightful place in
the Andean region that such as in the story was told, it has awesome landscapes
and towns where people there are very nice, kind, helpful and sociable. So, in order to bring more interesting data
about a little part from our Colombian culture. There are some interesting
points about Tolima, La patasola’s land, as one of the best and marvelous
places in our country.
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| [Map from Tolima Department]. Taken from http://www.colombia-sa.com/departamentos/tolima/tolima-in.html |
Tolima with 1,800,000 inhabitants about. It is located in
central-west Colombia, bordered by Caldas, Huila, Risaralda, Valle del Cauca
and Cundinamarca departments. It’s Capital is Ibague, most known as the musical
city of Colombia, there is an airport called Perales. Also it has lots of
mountains, mountain ranges, towns, so on. And some important and famous places
as the Magdalena River, The Nevado del Tolima and the Nevado del Ruiz that
are snow-covered mountains.
Also there are many places such as the reservoir of the Prado River, Los Nevados National Park, urban historic locations like the Ambalema Historic Center, some other famous towns like Girardot, Chaparral, Carmen de Apicala, Melgar, Honda, Guamo, Fresno, Villahermosa, Mariquita, El espinal, Prado, Chaparral, Cajamarca, Flandes, Libano, Rovira and so on. Likewise it was place of famous and peaceful places like Armero before its terrible tragedy. So, if you will ever travel to this department just enjoy it because actually it is worthwhile to visit.
Also there are many places such as the reservoir of the Prado River, Los Nevados National Park, urban historic locations like the Ambalema Historic Center, some other famous towns like Girardot, Chaparral, Carmen de Apicala, Melgar, Honda, Guamo, Fresno, Villahermosa, Mariquita, El espinal, Prado, Chaparral, Cajamarca, Flandes, Libano, Rovira and so on. Likewise it was place of famous and peaceful places like Armero before its terrible tragedy. So, if you will ever travel to this department just enjoy it because actually it is worthwhile to visit.
History
This booming department with
delightful landscapes was created in 1910. It was named in honor of a native
priestess Yulima who was killed by the first Spanish conquistadors. Also
it is important to know that the Pijao people lived in
Tolima during pre-Columbian times. Currently there is a group that conserve
those traditions and origins. For that reason Tolima has been a mythological
and a music land.
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| Espinel, A. (2014) Fotos cerca de San-Andrés, Tolima Cascada del Amor [Photography]. Taken from http://www.verfotosde.org/colombia/imagenes-de-San-Andres-19487.html
Some of the
relevant bearings in this section is that Tolima is placed in where lots of
important facts change Colombia History. One of the most important things that
took place in Tolima, was the Armero tragedy, that happened because of the
eruption by the Nevado del Ruiz stratovolcano, due to Armero localization near
it. That terrible tragedy took place on 13th November in 1985. The town was
under ashes and scraps for the eruption. Even knowing that it was going to
happened because of some scientists who were doing some research about the
volcano. It killed around 29.000 people. Unfortunately it is remembered for
Omaira, a girl who tried to survive until the last-minute of the tragedy. She
is the Armero tragedy symbol to remember them as one of the best places in
Colombia before the eruption. Nowadays there is a cemetery and some
people say that it could have been prevented if the government had started a
preventive plan taking into account scientists’ warnings before the tragedy.
Ibagué, Tolima- Colombia is waiting for you.wmw, Daniel Riaños 18/05/2015
It is a cultural video that invites you to come to our country, showing
important places not only from Tolima department but also from some departments
near there, with two of the most famous and typical songs from there “Sanjuanero” and “Vivirás
mi Tolima” (Songs ans Spanish
and English lyrics in the link) and some important things about culture and
marvels found here. It is a special invitation from the organization AIESEC in
charge of international relationships in Colombia.
Currently,
Tolima people and culture are awesome, they are very kind and passionate about
sports. For them it is important football. They feel it like a part of them,
like their own culture. So, they are really passionate for “Deportes Tolima”,
that it is the name of the representative football team there.
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FOOD AND EMBLEMS
Food
The department is also
recognized for its cuisine. Famous regional dishes include:
The Tamal Tolimense,
yellow rice with yellow pea, egg, chicken and vegetable filling, wrapped inside
a plantain leaf that taste delicious.
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Tamal tolimense de la fabrica de @Callmeperez en la.[Photography]. 20th
April of 2015. Taken
from: http://l4c.me/fotos/Tifa/tamal-tolimense-de-la-fabrica-de-callmeperez-en-la
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The Lechona,
a mixture of rice with peas and pork meat with even some pig leather.
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Edwineitorx(207)
[Photography]. 20th
April of
2015. Taken from: http://www.preciolandia.com/co/lechoneria-lechona-para-eventos-platos-p-6ti2mf-a.html
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Empanadas, small potato, rice and ground
beef, made with corn dough.
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Empanadas de carne. (2015) Knor. [Photography]. 31st May of 2015. Taken from: http://www.knorr.com.co/receta/detalle/8843/1/empanadas-de-carne
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Bizcocho calentano, they are
small pastries.
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kunstmacher, (2009) Tostados. [Photography]. 20th April of
2015. Taken from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/naam07/4229926236/
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Quesillo, is a type of cheese wrapped in a plantain leaf. Most of times with
something sweet and delicious called bocadilllo and that is a lot eaten here in
Colombia accompanied with cheese. Oftentimes called quesadilla in some other places.
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Cocinasemana.com. Los
quesos Colombianos. [Photography]. 20th
April of 2015. Taken from: http://www.cocinasemana.com/edicion-impresa/ingredientes/articulo/-los-colombianos/20291
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Also, in drinks is included
the Avena, a cold and refresh
oatmeal-based drink.
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Millan, M. P.; Venegas, L. A. (November
10th, 2010) Avena. Comidacolombiana7's Blog. [Photography]. 20th April of
2015. Taken from: https://comidacolombiana7.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/avena/
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Emblems
The anthem from Tolima is the same famous song “Bunde Tolimense”
written by Alberto Castilla and Nicanor Velázquez.
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| Fibonacci. (28th November, 2006). Flag of Tolima [Photography]. 20th April of 2015. Taken from http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_del_Tolima#/media/File:Flag_of_Tolima.svg |
The flag composed by wine red over gold.Those stripes represent, history and honors from Tolima, where the wine red symbolizes the blood spread by heroes from Tolima in the different battles for our independence. And yellow or gold means wealth overall mines from the region. It was adopted in 1968.
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Shadowxfox. (25th October, 2009). Escudo del
Tolima [Photography]. 20th April of 2015. Taken from http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolima#/media/File:Escudo_del_Tolima.svg
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