![]() Check out more on this delicious local produce and other great things in our article 10 things to buy in Manta.Ĭold Craft beer from Umiña in Manta. I live in a neighbourhood called Umiña and the best locally brewed beer is Named Umiña. Umiña is the most famous legend from Manta. people were said to travel from Mexico, Peru and all of Central America to visit the temple to cure the ailments. From that day on, legend has it that anyone who touched the emerald was immediately healed of all their ills. The local priests built a temple on the site and made a golden bust of Umiña with the emerald set into it. After several days she died and her corpse wasted away leaving only her heart with had become a giant red Emerald. They buried the chieftain and umiña threw herself onto the grave and ordered the soldiers not to touch her no matter what. Happy ending right? Wrong, the with after evading the soldiers and some werewolf shenanigans snuck into the chieftains chamber and stabbed him to death. He cast out the with and took Umiña back in. The town rejoiced and thankfully her father had come to his senses. This time she appeared 3 months later, having been rescued by a giant condor. Still bewitched her father decreed she be taken to the tallest mountain and tied there to die of exposure. Miraculously Umiña arrived onshore 3 days later. They tied her to a raft, sailed for 3 days into the ocean and then left her there with no food or water. She was jealous of Umiñas fame and cast a spell on the chieftain, convening him that Umiña must be put to death. After a year had passed the chieftain remarried to a local woman suspected of being a witch. Umiña took her mother’s place and quickly became beloved by the people for her healing abilities. When she was young, her mother mysteriously died. It Umiña was the daughter of a chieftain and her mother was a well known and much-loved healer and priestess. The goddess Umiña was considered the goddess of health for the Manteña culture. Here are 4 of my favourite stories selected form the many Ecuadorian legends.Ĭover photo by: The Manteña pre columbian culture. While reading about this I opened up a pandora’s box of myths and legends coming from the ancient cultures, that still pop up in towns and countrysides to this day. Thank Pizarro and his friends for getting rid of that one. The legend goes that a rebellion long ago against the Inca Empire resulted in their defeat and the curse of having to perform this act on every male for the rest of time. What tickled my fancy while reading about Pizarro and his infamous conquest was a description of how Men from the Manteña culture removed their own 2 front teeth from the upper and lower jaw. you can learn a lot more about the Pre Columbian cultures as well as more modern Ecuadorian History at the Ciudad Alfaro Museum complex on our Montecristi Panama Hat Tour. They thrived up and down the Ecuadorian coast in Balswood sailboats and rafts up until 1531 when Francisco Pizarro landed to the north in Esmeraldas. Mantas Pre-columbian ancestors were known as Manteñas. Ecuador has a rich history of indigenous cultures and from these roots, many myths and legends have persisted. ![]()
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