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Original post: n647

well this is not about the end of the world as apocalipse but about the land called in many legends or miths the end of the world, is the land I m from and that is know as Chile, and i tough it might be good to share a couple of miths or legends from this land, that while it might be young it does have some misteries ^^

let`s start with a little mith about the creation of this country we like to call the end of the world.
After the creation of the world, god realize that he had some leftover from rivers, mounts, sone glaciars etc ... and well he could not let all that go to waste, so he put them all togheter in the end of the world, creating the land know as chile.
this mith might be quite modern, and does have some versions that are more comical but still is a nice mith for start ^^

onother legend that you might know, is the one about "cabo de hornos" , the legends say that after the fight betwen good and the devil, he was cast down to the earth and chained down under the "cabo de hornos" , the mariners from old that navigated those wathers, told how you could hear in the night the chains that bind him and his screams.

well and talking about the devel we also have a couple of miths about this character, that well is present in more than a couple of tales in this thin and long land, for example the tale of "donde el diablo perdio el poncho" this could be translated as "where the devil lost his poncho" the poncho is a piece of cloathing used by the people of the rural areas in the past (and still used is great for the cold ^^ ). Is said that once the devil was sneaking into a convent to play with the nuns, under the disguise of a handsome men, he entered the cell of the most beutifull nun of the convent but the nun look at him in the eyes, the devil surprised wnet over her but the poncho was traped in the bars... later the nun till his last days claimed that the devil had taint her, and the people with the obisp tried to burn the poncho or destroy it, but proved to be imposible... after that they jut tie it to a huge rock and trow it to the bottom of one of the rivers, where the fishermen say that it still dwells and sometymes it brakes the nets...

onother tale with the devil as protagonis is more comical and is called " el roto que engaño al diablo" , I don`t think roto have a direct tranlsation so let say the guy who trick the devil...
was a night hour hero? walking at the night sighting because he was poor and was in love with the daughter of the richest men in the land, was in this moment that the devil apeared in forn of him, dresing all in white as a person with class and stile, and they make a deal, the devil would give the boy money and clothes, everithing to ge this love, in exchange for it`s soul, the boy accepted, and to make things formal, he say ok, but let`s writhe this down, and proceded to writhe " I will give my soul to the devil in exchange for all this tomorrow", both signed and the deal was done... the next day the devil apeared before the boy claiming his soul, but then the boy who was not as stupid as the devil tough, make him note, in the contract say tomorrow, so I will give you it to you then, the devil noticing that the boy has tricked him left furius in a explosion of fire...

something interesting to note, in the chilean mithology and legends, the devil apears a lot, but it rarely does as the red guy with horns, but usually as a handsome mature men well dressed all in white and with a single gold teth, the dreesing depends on the ocasion, for the miners is usually some regular clothes for a business men and a white helmet used in the mines y the bosses, while in rural areas is dressed like a "huaso" (again this dosn`t have direct translation so some research might clear that out) , in the city well is again simple elegant withe clothes and the gold theth, it always appears during the night, and the smell of sulfur is always present.

well guess this enough for now, hope you enjoyed this little tales form the end of the world, andsorry for my bad grammar and typing ^^;

Original post: Naomi Chan

Oh hmm that is all very very interesting.

Thanks for sharing this gem.

Original post: n647

thanks ^^ is a pleasure, I love to share some of the magic of this little country, and I bet most of such legends are unknown to people from the outside.
some things that one should notice and are more or less important you could see if interested in the occult I think...
are that chile is refered as the end of the world in many miths and legends (so strongh is this conection we even had a TV program called at the end of the worl that was about natural landscape and agriculture LOL)
the fact that the devil is present in many tales, and his prision is in this lands too.

onother tale thatyou might find interesting, is the tale of how the land in the south, made mainly by islands and water channels was created, for a start this piece of land is like a maze, people unfamiliar with those parts will be lost for sure and might end in a remote island where rains all the year but let`s go with the mith...
was in the past, long before the people from spain came, the son of 2 powerful "brujos" (I think warlock would be a good translation), where turn into 2 huge snakes, one of them half snake half fish was given power over the seas and the creatures that lived there, the other was given power over the land and vulcans, and was ordered to look for the humans... for some reason the snake fo the sea became angry with the humans, is not yet clear why, but then she decided to flood all the land and take everithing to it`s kingdom, the snake of the earth had to look upfor the human an raised the mountains and the people with them to save them from the flood, both snakes fought, it was a colossal fight and that fight gave shape to the land of the south, and only the gods could stop it, after that the snakes went back to theyr domains.

here we can see the snakes, one from the land and fire, and other that comes from the depths of the sea (where did I heard this before XD ), BTW the snake of the sea is white (make your conclusion) while the snake o the land is black and red

Original post: Naomi Chan

Interesting. So perhaps I was wrong about Crete being the only known physical gateway into hell.

Sounds like the Sumerian myths, actually.

Very interesting. Thanks again.

Original post: Darkwater

Hey Naomi,

I am going to Crete soon.Where can I see your theory,oh babeliscious cyber babe?

Namaste

Andy

Original post: Naomi Chan

Dante's inferno, forget what chapter. It's real archaic so you'll have to dig around like I did.

Original post: n647

he thanks naomi, the true is I can not say we have a gateway to hell here ^^ wath we do have are one of the depest mines in the world XD, aniway I m hapy to share this little stories and even better that someone found them interesting, any othe ropinion about them?
I also found interesting the similarity with legends and mith from such faraway cultures that had no contact

about crete being a gatewell, guess it would be a good start not only chakign dante`s inferno but clasic literature that talk about the entrance of hades and overlap the information, that would give you a more solid ground to base the theory and better chances to find it in the case it exist ^^

we could start making a investigation based on literature for it don`t you think ^^
it might be interesting