AURELIO MIRO QUESADA ETEN
MIROQUESADA AURELIO SOSA
journalist, writer and owner of the newspaper "El Comercio" BUSINESS IN TOWN ETEN
VISIT ETEN
"Posas" TISSUE AND SONGS
The following day we organized a new ride. To the rear of the hacienda Cayaltí - next to the flower garden that the sun was dazzling - Gustavo Aspillaga had sent a railcar to get us. It went to visit the town of Eten, with its port and its Village eager to sleep undisturbed, wrapped in the veil of mystery of its tradition and legend.
Eten
is the legendary old town of Santa Maria Magdalena. From the road we started getting into its mysteries, to see the rustic chapel on 02 June 1949, while singing the eve of Corpus, the image of the God appeared in the consecrated host child. Reinforcing the prodigy, when a flood struck the city and made it move a little further, all that was saved from the fury of the sea was the chapel, which has since been called "the Miracle."
Eten population is now a quiet, gentle, simple. Straight streets, houses usually a single floor. One, I remember two stories and its good iron windows, was in the main square, but very dilapidated state. In the square stands the church, also poor, with a tower taller than the other, zinc roof or "corrugated" and no altar, for having lost to the rains of 1925. The only thing that keeps his character is the series of images of saints, painted wood and vintage fabrics.
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Religious festivals still a very special animation modest and peaceful life of Santa Magdalena de Eten. There are processions, songs and ending with rockets, and begin several days before with rivalries among the stewards or "Head" and picturesque meetings for the "farming", or arrangement and wax carving. In A blow harp (the tasty book of folklore should always cite when talking about Lambayeque), narrates some of these ceremonies, in which the poles back and forth from the chapel to the church, and pass on certain corners under "backside" or reed arches, decorated with ribbons, colored paper, huacos, kids, lambs, or piles of lucuma, oranges, bananas, limes and watermelons.
life of the inhabitants of Eten is simple. Their houses have, in general, dirt floors, adobe walls and beamed ceilings plastered twisted mesquite. In two or three bedrooms will accommodate a large family, and only a corral at the bottom for the donkey or piajeno "which has, moreover, the right to walk around the house, with a certain poise of character.
Men work in large proportion, as laborers on the railroad. Others have very small gardens or fields, and are engaged in selling vegetables. Sometimes, along the streets away, and almost in the country, mills are driven by oxen. In these mills - which are very frequent also in Monsefú - crushed sugar cane and the juice is collected then takes a large bowl. From there he moves into a pan, heated from below, where is the honey. The etenanos, in all these tasks, go barefoot, and it is only on occasions when they bring out - he is but for a moment - its characteristic yellow color boots up.
Women wear, almost uniformly, black skirt and white blouse. His main work, as well as children, is the weaving of straw hats, which is the most important industry in Eten. You see them on the doorsteps, knitting without the chaff, by practice and the skills they already have.
Eten, was also the last refuge of Muchic language or, more precisely, its derivative or dialect, which the English called "the language yunga fisherwoman." At present almost be said to have disappeared. However, until recently the German scholar Enrique Bruning, during their stay in the town of Eten, could write words that served to complement the invaluable art of yunga language, published in 1644 by Don Fernando de la Carrera, cure San Martin de Reque.
... Eten are common in some peculiar pronunciations. Is typical and change the "o" with "e" in the words. And so, to improvise a verse for greeting birthday Don Pedro Carrillo (trader who made his fortune buying and selling straw hats), formed the quartet is already classical
"Pajarito yellow"
Color "Alfalfa"
living
Don P. Carrillo,
who is now his sante! "
Text: COSTA, SIERRA AND MOUNTAIN
Author: AURELIO MIRO QUESADA SOSA
Publishing Company: TRADE
Pages: 62 to 65.
BIOGRAPHY
Aurelio Miro Quesada Sosa was born in Lima on 15 May 1907, owner of the newspaper "El Comercio". Traveled several opportunities to Europe, where he spent more or less long periods to perfect their knowledge in English, French, who dominated perfection. He joined the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, where he graduated Doctor of Letters in 1935, with the notable thesis on "America in the theater of Lope de Vega." He also studied law and earned his law degree in 1931.
From an early age began in cultural journalism, and his first articles were on James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Proust and literature almost unknown in our country, the countries of the East. Between 1933 and 1934 he traveled in Europe and Asia of which he wrote in his book Around the World (1936). Would then travel to our country.
Still very young he joined the San Marcos university teaching in the Faculty of Arts, dictating the course of history of English literature. He was dean of the faculty from 1948 to 1956. This last year he was elected president, a position he resigned in 1957. Aurelio Miro Quesada served alongside his academic work with the newspaper.
His works include:
- Notes of land and sea (1942)
- José Antonio Miro Quesada (1945)
- El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1945)
- Lima, Ciudad de los Reyes (1946)
- Cervantes, Tirso and Peru (1948)
- Ten travel notes (1954)
- The first viceroy - poet in America: Don Juan de Mendoza y Luna, Marquis of Montesclaros (1967)
- Twenty Peruvian themes (1966)
- Time to read, the time of writing (1977)
- History and legend of Mariano Melgar (1978)
- Peruvian New items (1982)
Dr. Aurelio Miro Quesada led the newspaper "El Comercio" from 1980 until his death on September 26, 1998. He was director of the Peruvian Academy of Language and Chairman of the National Academy of History.
