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México
Well, it's been a very long time since I wrote anything here and I'm happy to be back. It took me quite a while to decide that but I wanted to practice again my English.So I come here today to ask you guys about your opinion of Mexico, because I've been talking to many people from different countries and I'm curious about it. Also, I'd like to tell you more about my culture, like something about our history or our legends, our art and the food that we cook. It would be nice to know what people think about my country.
In the mean time I'm going to talk about a Mexican legend, it's about the origin of the volcano and the mountain "Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl" that are situated in the valley of Mexico.
There are many versions of the story but the one that I like the most is this:
A long time ago, when the Aztecs were still here and people still believed in multiple gods, there was a princess that fell so in love with a warrior that she decided to marry him. His name was Popocatépetl and her name was, of course, Iztaccíhuatl. But there was a huge problem. Her father didn't agree with that marriage and he thought that she should marry a different powerful man but she didn't even want to think about it, she loved Popocatépetl. In order to stop her he said that if she wanted his blessing, as a warrior, her lover must had to destroy a rival village and bring a proof of his victory.
With that in mind, the warrior left the town and traveled straight to the war. He fought for days and nights so that he could marry the love of his life. Back in the village, the princess was faithful and waited for him but sadly, a warrior of their people brought very bad news.
He said that Popocatépetl died in battle, that he was not coming back and that broke the heart of Iztaccíhuatl, causing her to fall in a very deep sleep due to her sadness. The days passed and the princess never woke up, until one day a man came looking for her. It was her lover who had been very injured badly during the combat but he was ready now to marry her.
Everyone told him about the sad events and how she wouldn't wake up, so with his heart broken and the body of Iztaccíhuatl, he traveled to the top of a mountain to bury her and sweared to always look after her.
The gods moved by that huge love, decided to give them the gift of eternity and with that, they turned them into what we today know of as the volcano and the mountain of the valley, which have the shape of a kneeling man and a sleeping woman.
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