Lucia Zenteno, The Woman Who Outshone the Sun

The Mexican folktale of the same name inspired this piece. Lucia Zenteno was very beautiful with long shining hair. She was always surrounded by butterflies and flowers as well as her friend the iguana. The river would rise from the banks and flow into her long hair. She would comb the river, along with the fish that lived in it, back into it's bed. Lucia was mysterious and different and the people of the village didn't know how to react to her unusual ways. Because she was different the people were frightened and they drove her out of the village. She left and the river flowed into hair and left the village with her. Without the river the people suffered. After a time the people found Lucia and begged forgiveness. Lucia brought back the river but she disappeared leaving them with a lesson learned.